Small Cities With Big Dreams

Author : Greg Richards,Lian Duif
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351201179

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Small Cities with Big Dreams by Greg Richards,Lian Duif Pdf

How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an important tool for driving urban development that is sensitive to the needs of communities. This volume examines the development of creative placemaking practices that can help to link small cities to external networks, stimulate collaboration and help them make the most of the opportunities presented by the knowledge economy. The authors argue that the adoption of more strategic, holistic placemaking strategies that engage all stakeholders can be a successful alternative to copying bigger places. Drawing on a range of examples from around the world, they analyse small city development strategies and identify key success factors. This book focuses on the case of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a small Dutch city that used cultural programming to link itself to global networks and stimulate economic, cultural, social and creative development. It advocates the use of cultural programming strategies as a more flexible alternative to traditional top-down planning approaches and as a means of avoiding copying the big city. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Alex Counts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470285273

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Small Loans, Big Dreams by Alex Counts Pdf

Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus’s microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.

Author : Heike Mayer,Michela Lazzeroni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800887121

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A Research Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Towns by Heike Mayer,Michela Lazzeroni Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the ‘urban bias’ to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size.

Author : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1692 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050649560

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Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Page,Joanne Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000043082

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Tourism by Stephen J. Page,Joanne Connell Pdf

Tourism can be a challenging subject for students because it is both dynamic and susceptible to economic turbulence and shifts in trends. Tourism: A Modern Synthesis is an essential textbook for tourism students seeking a clear and comprehensive introduction to their studies that addresses these challenges. The authors apply a business approach to the subject, reflecting developments in the teaching and content of university courses, and the text covers both key principles and contemporary themes and issues at a global scale. Among the new features and topics included in this fifth edition are: New and fully updated case studies to reflect current trends and emerging markets including Africa and Asia. Up-to-date content on disruptive technologies such as Airbnb, low-cost airlines, the e-travel revolution and future developments. Current debates in sustainable tourism including the anti-tourism movement, plastic use and the Sustainable Development Goals. New content on evolving topics such as future employment, human resource management in tourism and generational marketing. Fully updated statistics and data. A brand-new Companion Website including an instructor’s manual, supplementary case studies, weblinks, multiple choice questions and PowerPoint slides. This is the ideal guide to tourism for students across all levels, serving as a point of reference throughout a programme of study.

Author : Alastair M. Morrison,J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429534805

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Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities by Alastair M. Morrison,J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars, the book explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends. Organised into four parts, the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored, including sustainable urban tourism, overtourism and urbanisation, the impact of terrorism, visitor–host interactions, as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing, branding and markets for tourism cities are considered, exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding, business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities, examining their supply and impact on different travellers, from open-air markets to creative waterfronts, from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism, including geology and ecology-based tourism, socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism. This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners, as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism, heritage studies, human geography, urban studies and urban planning, sociology, psychology and business studies.

Author : Constance Dahm Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3442025

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Big City, Big Dreams by Constance Dahm Clark Pdf

Author : John Ebejer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781538160558

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Tourism in European Cities by John Ebejer Pdf

Tourism in European Cities explores the relationship between tourist activity and the architecture and built environment within which it takes place. This is the first book to consider urban tourism with a particular focus on European cities. Tourism in European Cities considers the tourist experience and the various elements that shape it. In many cities, the historic core plays a crucial role in tourism either as the location of the more important attractions, or as an attraction in its own right. The book dedicates a chapter to urban heritage and its relationship to tourism, including urban conservation and UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Another chapter considers contemporary architecture and debates some cities’ efforts to use iconic architecture, in particular, to enhance their attractiveness in the context of increased competition between cities. In the context of competition, many cities are resorting to events as a strategy to reposition and differentiate themselves from other cities. Major events are accompanied by major investment in event venues and in urban infrastructure. The city often serves as a backdrop to the urban festival as activities and performances are staged in the city’s urban spaces. This book is essential reading for students of tourism and urban geography. It is also of interest to students of urban planning and architecture, and anyone keen to learn more about tourism and European cities.

Author : Ariella Van Luyn,Eduardo de la Fuente
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429860270

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Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity by Ariella Van Luyn,Eduardo de la Fuente Pdf

Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the ‘qualities of place’. This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding ‘native’ foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in ‘outback’ settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of ‘authentic’ landscapes, and tensions between the ‘representational’ and ‘non-representational’ in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the ‘other’ of metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible threads that ‘hold communities together’. If, in the wake of the publication of Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class, creative industries models tended to emphasize ‘big cities’ and the spatial-cum-cultural imaginaries of the ‘Global North’, recent research and policy discourses – especially, in the Australian context – have paid greater attention to ‘small cities’, rural and remote creativity. This collection will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in creative industries, urban and regional studies, sociology, geography and cultural planning.

Author : Iréne Bernhard,Urban Gråsjö,Charlie Karlsson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789902587

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Diversity, Innovation and Clusters by Iréne Bernhard,Urban Gråsjö,Charlie Karlsson Pdf

Increased emphasis on the links between regional diversity and regional knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship highlights the need for a focus on the spatial aspects of these multifaceted, dynamic relationships in order to improve our understanding. By means of a conceptual approach, this timely book illustrates the links between innovation and economic development through the role of space. This thought-provoking book addresses the questions regarding diversity, innovation and clusters that require further investigation and analysis.

Author : Maxine N. Lurie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0813549140

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A New Jersey Anthology by Maxine N. Lurie Pdf

This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more. The contributors are Michal R. Belknap, Patricia U. Bonomi, Lyle W. Dorsett, John P. Dwyer, Jim Fisher, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Bradley M. Gottfried, Paul E. Johnson, David L. Kirp, Mark Edward Lender, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Mary R. Murrin, Larry A. Rosenthal, Amy Shapiro, Warren E. Stickle III, Lorraine E. Williams, Giles R. Wright

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Brownfields
ISBN : PURD:32754078698390

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Brownfields and the 50 states by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781422332337

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Hearing Before Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census of the Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Page,Joanne Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000052770

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The Routledge Handbook of Events by Stephen J. Page,Joanne Connell Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with the rapidly expanding domain of Event Studies. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, to provide a state-of-the-art review on the evolution of the subject. The first edition was a landmark study which examined how event research had evolved and developed from a range of different social science subject areas and disciplines. The Handbook was the first critique of the extent to which the subject had developed into a major area of social science inquiry. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect crucial developments in the field and includes brand new sections on ever-important aspects of Event Studies such as: anthropology, hospitality, seasonality, knowledge management, accessibility, diversity and human rights, as well as new studies on ‘the eventful city’ and the benefits of events in older life. The book is divided into four inter-related sections. Section 1 introduces and evaluates the concept of events. Section 2 critically reviews the relationship between events and other disciplines such as the contribution of economics, psychology and geography to the critical discourse of Event Studies. Section 3 focuses on the business, operational and strategic management of events, while the final section crucially focuses on critical events as a new paradigm within the burgeoning literature on Events. It offers the reader a comprehensive and critical synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking associated with events research, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field. The text will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in Events Studies, encouraging dialogue that will span across disciplinary boundaries and other areas of study. It is an essential guide for anyone interested in events research.

Author : Nancy duxbury,Sara Albino,Claudia Pato de Carvalho
Publisher : CABI
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789243536

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Creative Tourism by Nancy duxbury,Sara Albino,Claudia Pato de Carvalho Pdf

This book provides a synthesis of current research and international best practice in the emerging field of creative tourism. Including knowledge, insights, and reflections from both practitioners and researchers, it covers types of creative tourist, trends, designing and implementing creative tourism products, embedding activities in a community and place, and addressing sustainability challenges. Applying lessons learned from the CREATOUR project and other initiatives, the editors present key information in an actionable manner best suited to people working on the ground. A vital resource for tourism agencies, practitioners, planners and policymakers interested in developing creative tourism programmes and activities, this book will also be of interest to cultural and creative tourism researchers, students, and teachers of tourism and culture-based development.