| Description |
1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1 Small Towns: Theoretical Background and Research Issues -- Chapter 1 The Functions and Local Linkages of Small Towns: A Review of Selected Classifications and Approaches to Research -- Chapter 2 Small Towns in Settlement Systems: A Return to the Foreground? -- Chapter 3 Small Towns: Theoretical Background and Research Issues -- Perspectives from the United States |
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Chapter 4 Small Towns: Theoretical Background and Research Issues. Exploring the Diversity of Small Towns in France -- Chapter 5 Spanish Small towns: Evolution, Functional Structure, and Characterisation -- Chapter 6 Determining Villages' Status and Their Economic Functions: The Case of Mongolia -- Section 2 The Role and Significance of Small Towns in Socio-Economic Development -- Chapter 7 The Small Romanian Towns: From Creative Destruction to Destructive Creation and Back? -- Chapter 8 From Informal to Formal: Towards the Sustainable Transformation of Small Towns in Africa |
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Chapter 9 Small, but Resilient: A Case Study of the Town of Utazu, Kagawa, Japan -- Chapter 10 The Natural and Migration Movements Versus Population Ageing in Poland's Small Towns -- Chapter 11 Performance of Small Towns in an Economically Lagging Region: A Case Study of the Spiš Region, Slovakia -- Chapter 12 Small Towns in the Energy Transition Era: Local Drivers for Climate Change Adaptation? -- Chapter 13 Contemporary Status of Small Towns in Bulgaria: Functions and Role in the Development of Rural Regions -- Section 3 Small Towns in Rural Space |
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Chapter 14 Changing Urban-Rural Relations in Israel's Periphery1 -- Chapter 15 Urban-Rural Linkages: An Inquiry into Second-Home Tourism in the Nordics -- Chapter 16 New rural-urban relationships of small towns in north-western Germany -- Chapter 17 Small Regional Centres at the Periphery of Switzerland: Porrentruy and Brig-Glis -- Chapter 18 Small Towns in Rural Space: The Case of Czechia -- Chapter 19 Urban Growth Engines or Relational Proximity?: What Can We Learn From Enterprise Population and Business Demography Indicators in the Context of Rural and Small-Town Scotland? |
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Chapter 20 The Role of Farmers in Small-Town Community Development in an Age of Austerity: Reflections from Australasia -- Chapter 21 Agri-Food Workers: Transnational Connections in Small Towns and Rural Areas -- Section 4 The Small Towns Planning Challenges -- Chapter 22 Inter-Municipal Spatial Planning as a Tool to Prevent Small-Town Competition: The Case of the Emilia-Romagna Region -- Chapter 23 Ukrainian Small Cities in the Perspective of Sustainable Spatial Planning -- Chapter 24 Small Town Survival in Rural Australia: A New England Case Study |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000422382 |
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1000422380 |
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