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Author:   John R. Bryson ,  Ronald V. Kalafsky ,  Vida Vanchan
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781789908015

ISBN 10:   1789908019
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   20 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Preface: ordinary cities – place, space, time and biographical narratives xii Acknowledgements xvi 1 Ordinary cities, extraordinary geographies: parallax dimensions, interpolations and the scale question 1 John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky and Vida Vanchan 2 The progressive city in the neighborhood context 23 George R. Frantz 3 The mechanics of small metropolitan labor markets in the U.S. South: does job growth always drive population growth? 43 Jonathan Kozar and William Graves 4 Examining the exports of smaller southern cities and assessing “borrowed size” 67 Ronald V. Kalafsky 5 (Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-led urban regeneration and economic revival 84 Louise C. Johnson, Sally Weller and Tom Barnes 6 The infraordinary or the ordinary as extraordinary? Expertise (and not global) production networks and ordinary towns and cities 106 Stephen Williams and John R. Bryson 7 An ordinary but extraordinary city: Siem Reap Angkor, Cambodia 133 Vida Vanchan 8 Resilience and development of a small city in India: Dholpur, Rajasthan 151 Suparna Soni 9 Interconnection between ethnic enclaves in a small city and globalization 164 Kamyoung Kim and Ju-Hyun Bae 10 Beside the seaside: vertical dis-integration, demographic imbalance and adaptation in UK coastal communities 190 Jacob Salder 11 Reframing urban theory: smaller towns and cities, forms of life, embeddedplasticity and variegated urbanism 210 John R. Bryson, Vida Vanchan and Ronald V. Kalafsky Index

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'Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies is a call for a more inclusive research agenda centering overlooked places often perceived as less important because they are not exceptionally large, or wealthy, or confronted by exceptional circumstances. Bryson, Kalafsky, and Vanchan have assembled both a compelling argument for studying ordinary places and a collection of international empirical examples. The result is an illustration of how and why studying ordinary places is essential to building a more inclusive research agenda for geography (and more broadly social science).' -- Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, US

'Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies is a call for a more inclusive research agenda centering overlooked places often perceived as less important because they are not exceptionally large, or wealthy, or confronted by exceptional circumstances. Bryson, Kalafsky, and Vanchan have assembled both a compelling argument for studying ordinary places and a collection of international empirical examples. The result is an illustration of how and why studying ordinary places is essential to building a more inclusive research agenda for geography (and more broadly social science).' - Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, US

Author Information

Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK, Ronald V. Kalafsky, Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee and Vida Vanchan, Professor of Geography and Planning, Geography and Planning Department, Buffalo State, The State University of New York, SUNY, US

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