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Unique Urbanity?

Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Tara Brabazon

    1. School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

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  • Synthesizes the city imaging literature while also offering a distinctive, applicable and innovative understanding of the specific strengths and challenges of small cities
  • Provides a unique focus on third-tier cities and their situation after the Global Financial Crisis
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Go to Darwin and Starve, ya Bastard

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 1-6

  3. Go Where? Creative Industries After the Global Financial Crisis

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 7-30

  4. Entering the Third Tier: A Tour Through Decay and Disadvantage

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 31-45

  5. Inland Possibilities

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 47-55

  6. When a Place Finds a Purpose

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 57-79

  7. Urban Living Through the Life Cycle

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 81-84

  8. Digital Distinctiveness

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 85-92

  9. Cities of Hope and Happiness

    • Tara Brabazon
    Pages 93-96

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 97-103
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About this book

This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of New York, London, Tokyo or Cairo, or second-tier cities like San Francisco, Manchester, Osaka or Alexandria. This book traces the current state of the creative industries literature after the GFC, but with a specific focus. The specific – and worsening – conditions in third-tier cities are logged. The social and economic challenges within these regions are great, particularly with regard to health and health services, education, employment, social mobility and physical activity. This is not a study that merely diagnoses problems but raises strategies for third-tier cities to create both a profile and growth. The current research field is synthesized to reveal how cities are defined, constituted, developed and, in many cases, suffering decline. There is an imperative to build relationships with other urban environments. The book enters these under-discussed locations and reveal the scarred layering of injustice, signified by depopulation, dis-investment, economic decline and a reduction in public services for health, transportation and education, while also developing specific and innovative models for improvement. The vista summoned in Unique Urbanity is international, with strong attention to trans-local strategies that offer wide relevance, currency and opportunities for policy makers. While third-tier cities are often hidden, marginalized, invisible or demeaned, Unique Urbanity shows that innovation, imagination and creativity can emerge in small places.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

    Tara Brabazon

About the author

Tara Brabazon is the Professor of Education and head of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. Previously, Tara has held academic positions in the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. She has won six teaching awards, including the National Teaching Award for the Humanities, and has published 14 books and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters. She is best known for her books Digital Hemlock (2002), the University of Google (2007), Thinking Pop (2011) and Digital Dieting (2013).

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