| Description |
1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Series |
Global Urban Studies |
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Global urban studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Frontispiece -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a global overview of Twin City Studies -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Intranational Twin Cities -- Chapter 2: Twin cities in medieval England: The case of small towns' development -- Weymouth and Melcombe Regis -- East and West Teignmouth -- Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel -- West Looe and East Looe -- Twin port towns -- References |
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Chapter 3: The continued evolution of Fort William and Port Arthur into the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada -- A new century -- The World Wars and aftermath -- Together at last? -- References -- Chapter 4: Banana-benders and cockroaches 1 : Cross-border planning for Gold Coast-Tweed Heads -- Introduction -- From colonies to states and the Commonwealth of Australia -- Indigenous perspectives -- Settlement and urban history -- Cross-border planning -- Conflicts and border closures -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Chandigarh tri-city: Between conflict and co-operation |
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The tri-city's birth: a contentious legacy -- Growth trajectories: From emulation to complementarity -- Growing together: through conflict and competition -- The way ahead: Lessons from the pandemic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Embryonic twin cities: Reggio Calabria and Messina in Italy -- Reggio and Messina: two important cities with fluctuating relationships -- Two cities scarcely integrated, in institutional and functional terms -- Potential for integration: the complementary nature of the two areas -- Integration's future: scenarios and strategies -- Conclusions -- Notes |
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Tilsit/Sovietsk-Panemunė: changing allegiances and border relations -- Danzig and its unequal twins: a border solution to a geopolitical dilemma -- Szczecin, Świnoujście, Police, Nowe Warpno and Stalinstadt: nation-state containment at the Oder -- Divided towns on the Oder and Neisse rivers -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Two generations of Eurocities along the northern section of the Spanish-Portuguese border -- A border with strong commonalities: an open path for cooperation -- Galicia-Região Norte cross-border background |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Part II: International Twin Cities: A. In Europe -- Chapter 7: Prussian border twin towns: The urban geopolitics of an amorphous territorial state -- Introduction: towns, territories and their borders -- The geopolitics of territorial change in Prussia and Germany and its urban effects 1 -- Imperial German, Weimar Republican and Nazi German border towns until 1939 -- Post-World War II: German urban borders and lost territories -- Some examples over time -- Anklam: a divided border-river town in 18th-century Germany |
| Notes |
Eurocity Chaves-Verín: the forerunner of local border cooperation |
| Subject |
Borderlands -- Case studies
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Interregionalism -- Case studies
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Cities and towns -- Case studies
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Borderlands
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Cities and towns
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Interregionalism
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garrard, John
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| ISBN |
9781000479072 |
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1000479072 |
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