This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges common representations of urban development successes and failures.

Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that highlights uneven development concerns.

By emphasising the subordinate status of secondary cities relative to their dominant neighbours the book raises new questions about regional development in the Global North. It considers alternative relations and development strategies that innovatively reimagine the subordinate status of secondary cities and showcase their full potential.

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Yes, you can access Secondary Cities by Pendras, Mark,Williams, Charles,Mark Pendras,Charles Williams in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & City Planning & Urban Development. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Bristol University Press

Year

2021

Print ISBN

9781529212075

eBook ISBN

9781529212099

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

City Planning & Urban Development

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Secondary Cities: Introduction to a Research Agenda
2. Shedding Light or Casting Shadows? Relations between Primary and Secondary Cities
3. Small and Medium-Sized Towns as Secondary Cities: The Case of Switzerland
4. From Sleepy Hollow to Winning from Second: Identity, Autonomy and Borrowed Size in an Australian Urban Region
5. Metropolization Processes and Intra-Regional Contrasts: The Uneven Fortunes of English Secondary Cities
6. Situating the Secondary City: Uneven Development and Regional Gentrification in Tacoma, WA
7. Borrowed Social Performance: Labour and Community Organizations in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California
8. Intra-Regional Relationality and Green City-Regionalism: Placing the Role of ‘Secondary Cities’
9. Conclusion: Advancing the Secondary City Perspective

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