Small and medium-sized towns: role and policy challenges in a globalized world
| dc.contributor.author | Demaziere, Christophe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Beltrão Sposito, Maria Encarnação | |
| dc.contributor.author | İnce, İrem | |
| dc.contributor.author | Inkoom, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitrea, Andrei | |
| dc.contributor.author | Todes, Alison | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-13T08:34:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-13T08:34:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | During the last decades, metropolises and large city-regions around the world have been considered by many scholars and policymakers as the main drivers of development (Friedmann, 1986; World Bank, 2009). Within the context of the current economic slowdown in many countries, large cities are seen again as catalysts. Economists claim that urban location advantages augment when the city size increases due to externalities that stem from investments in public services, large markets of outputs, and large and diversified markets of inputs. In contrast, small and medium-sized towns have been left aside and far less a subject of a scientific discussion (Bell and Jayne, 2009). But critical views have emerged. For instance, J. Robinson (2002) argues that urban research has been dominated by studies on large cities in developed countries. Through the concept of “ordinary cities”, she claims that all cities, regardless of their size or location, show dynamic and innovative aspects; and at the same time they face constraints and challenges. In the global South, it seems important to explore the role of small towns within rapid urbanization. On other continents, and especially in Europe, how can secondary towns contribute to territorial cohesion, for instance in rural and peripheral regions undergoing ageing and depopulation? | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 50-52 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2696 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Small and medium-sized towns: role and policy challenges in a globalized world | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion |