Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century

Ocejo, Richard E.; Kosta, Ervin; Mann, Alexis

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“…The forgotten status of small and medium cities in theories on cultural economic development seems a mere reflection of their generally forgotten state in theories on the city and urbanization [48,60]. Moreover, their systematic exclusion from 'grand' conceptualizations [61] has not been corrected by theories specific to their smaller scale. In general, they are categorized "would-be cities" [48] (p. 1), without "the kinds of urban unfolding in the big cities" [61] (p. 3), or else as problematic places, due largely to the things they lack and that keep them from being complete cities.…”

Section: Small and Medium-sized Cities: The Role Of Culture As An Eco...mentioning

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Medium and Small Cities, Culture and the Economy of Culture. A Review of the Approach to the Case of Spain in Light of International Scientific Scholarship

2020

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While most published studies on the economy of culture present a clear bias in favor of large cities, a significant international bibliography has emerged in recent years that privileges the perspective of medium and small cities. Unfortunately, the case of Spain has been largely overlooked by these analyses; this text is intended to remedy that oversight. To that end, a bibliographic compilation has been undertaken of studies on the cultural economy and cultural development in small and medium Spanish cities, providing a review of the specific literature as contrasted with the international literature. The main conclusions indicate that the Spanish case is similar to that of other western countries. Thus, clear confirmation is found that the effects of agglomeration economies and the so-called metropolitan bias also prevail in Spain, together with dispersion patterns that, to a certain extent, favor particular small and medium cities. Furthermore, even though the literature on the use of culture for urban renewal is abundant, the same cannot be said for the economics of culture, where considerable research gaps persist, both in the geographical coverage of case studies and in the social or labor impacts of this economic model.

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Medium and Small Cities, Culture and the Economy of Culture. A Review of the Approach to the Case of Spain in Light of International Scientific Scholarship

2020

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“…The urbanization of small urban centres like Pangandaran remains relevant as they embrace different challenges and narratives to large and metropolitan cities (Bell & Jayne, 2006, 2009Ocejo et al, 2020). Urbanization becomes a constant reflection of anticipation and is highly contested for small cities in the decentralization era.…”

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“…After consulting with the local government in drafting the spatial plan of the Pangandaran urban area, the authors reflect on the complexity and challenges those small urban areas have been encountering in the juxtaposition of global and national policies. Many researchers have primarily been paying attention to large and metropolitan urban areas, using them as the definition of city and non-city, thus locating smaller urban areas in an ambivalent position to both (Bell & Jayne, 2006, 2009Ocejo et al, 2020). Perhaps there is even an awkwardness of joining the term "city" and "small" as Bell & Jayne (2006:5) argued, "the very idea of cities is to be big and to get bigger: shrinkage, even stasis, is a sign of failure."…”

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Small town urbanization and project experimentation in Pangandaran Region, Indonesia

Astuti¹,

Lestari²,

Herlambang³

2021

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This article contributes to the debate of small centre urbanization and positions it amidst three emerging challenges: urban-rural transformation, economic experimentation, and disaster risk mitigation. To examine the entanglement of the three forces, we analysed the expansion of the Pangandaran urban area – a small urbanizing area in West Java. This expansion occurred as part of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project, in the form of a regional infrastructure plan including railway, airport, and harbour development to accommodate tourism flux. This study uses discursive and qualitative approaches to rural-urban transformation with data gathered through document analysis, mapping, and FGDs with local stakeholders. The results show that although urbanization was a complex process with promises of extensive infrastructure developments and national projects, little attention has been paid to the internal urban structure, utilities, and increasing vulnerability to natural disasters in Pangandaran. The study also addresses how urban theories and policies should deal with the complexities of small urban areas in Indonesia.

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“…But it has been taken up beyond these areas, including in dance and performance studiesa field already profoundly concerned with rhythm - (Morris, 2017), education (Alhadeff-Jones, 2017Vostal, 2016), fiction (Christiansen & Gebauer, 2019), poetry (Glaser & Culler, 2019), theology (Eikelboom, 2018), work andorganisation (Cahit Agar &Manolchev, 2020;Snyder, 2016), consumption (Southerton, 2020) and algorithmic technologies (Coletta & Kitchin, 2017). Whilst the concept of rhythmanalysis was developed with reference to cities in the global North in the twentieth century, it also resonates beyond these contexts in time and space to grasp the dynamism and diversity of 'small' (Ocejo, Kosta, & Mann, 2020) and 'ordinary' (Robinson, 2006) cities, and further research in these contexts might lead to the reformulation of rhythmanalysis (see Cook, 2015;Kern, 2015;Meij, Haartsen, & Meijering, 2021;Stasik, 2017). The insights into AbdouMaliq Simone's (2018) work on practices of living with the urban in the global south have already brought into view the 'rhythms of endurance' and resourcefulness that exist in African and Asian cities.…”

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Introduction: Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Urban Life

Lyon¹

2021

Rhythmanalysis

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I'm sitting on a train heading into London, lucky to get a window seat. It's a high-speed line and the green of the south east England countryside is a blur. This makes it hard to see the criss-crossing of tracks and roads, this infrastructure of commuting and economic development, that converge towards the city. I feel slightly nauseous if I look at something close to the line. Best to focus on the distance. The rhythms of train travel familiar to me from a childhood spent in the 1970s are my reference point, that 'chuggity-chug' motion of wheels on the track. Speed is relative, of course. Still, the singularity of the high-speed whoosh makes me want to hold my breath as the train tears into a tunnel under the River Thames and then bursts out into the capital. This is the part I like, as the rhythms of the city reveal themselves in turn. I notice the building sites of north east London, the flows or 'circuits' of capital and power that underpin the latest surge of construction. At Stratford International, the smooth turning of the escalators carries passengers from platforms carved deep into the ground up into the station and the nearby shopping centrethe rhythms of consumption are never far in the city. As the train pulls away again, I catch a glimpse of people grouped at bus stops or crossings, the rhythms of vehicles, diverse bodies and the fabric of the street intersecting with one another. After another stretch underground, we approach St Pancras and everything slows down. There's always a short wait ahead of the end of the line, a welcome pause. People meander along the canal path occasionally looking up at the new apartment blocks built within nineteenth century cast-iron gasholders, while longboats await repair and a small nature reserve is a hive of unseen activity against a backdrop of controversial regeneration. Suddenly we are in the station, this grand site of modernity. The train doors open and the crowd moves briefly en masse. Then the 'invisible ties' of the

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Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century

Cited by 28 publications

References 67 publications

Medium and Small Cities, Culture and the Economy of Culture. A Review of the Approach to the Case of Spain in Light of International Scientific Scholarship

Medium and Small Cities, Culture and the Economy of Culture. A Review of the Approach to the Case of Spain in Light of International Scientific Scholarship

Small town urbanization and project experimentation in Pangandaran Region, Indonesia

Introduction: Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Urban Life

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