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Title: |
Small Town Geographies in Africa |
| Sub-title: |
Experiences from South Africa & Elsewhere |
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| Edited by: |
Ronnie Donaldson, Lochner Marais |
| ISBN10-13: |
162100001X : 9781621000013 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
260x180mm |
| Pages: |
457 |
| Weight: |
1.158 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - October 2011 |
| List Price: |
283.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Politics & government : Warfare & defence : Economics : Africa |
| Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing world contexts. Small towns are generally depicted as rural, and many people do not even consider the term urban to be applicable to small towns. The editors of this collection invited scholars from around the world to contribute chapters that explore the developmental challenges of small cities and towns empirically, theoretically and historically in specific urban contexts in Africa. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface: Small town geographies; Classification of South African towns revisited; Exploring small town development dynamics in rural South Africa's post-productivist landscapes; Identifying economic growth drivers in small towns in South Africa: A case study; Rethinking sustainability of small towns: Towards a socio-technical approach; Using geospatial data analysis & qualitative economic intelligence to inform local economic development in small towns: A case study of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa; Theorizing the way forward regarding transdisciplinary research on environmental crises in small towns - Merafong in the Gauteng Province as case study; Commuting to & from small towns in the hinterland of Cape Town Metropolitan Area, Western Cape Province; Small town racism: Place-identity politics & discourses of protest; Improving the business environment for local economic development in small town South Africa; Prince Albert: A fourth economic bubble or sustainable development?; Book town tourism as a private development initiative for small town revival: The case of Richmond; Promoting small town development: The case of the Apollo Development Association; Missing the uranium train: Local economic development & civic culture in Beaufort West; Tarring the road to Mecca: Dilemmas of infrastructural development in a small Karoo town; Tourism risks associated with small town development: The case of Clarens; Getting the chemistry right: The impact of the FIFA 2010 world cup on Karoo towns; Hartbeespoort evolving from small town to post-productivist second home development node; Coastal spaces as ‘walls’: Gated developments in small towns on the West Coast; Calvinia: Exploratory study of the workings of a Karoo town; Local implementation of national policy: “Breaking new ground” in the coastal towns of the Overberg municipal area?; Size matters: Land restitution in Knysna; A developmental planning approach to the plight of small & dying towns in South Africa; The future of struggling small towns in South Africa; Re-orienting rural development in the Eastern Cape: Small town regeneration as a strategy for rural development: The case study of Keiskammahoek; Tourism development & community response: The case of the Inhambane coastal zone, Mozambique; Tourism growth & societal transformations in Cameroon's coastal resorts: Sex tourism & its implications for sustainable tourism development in Kribi & Limbe; Agriculture-related industry & small town growth in Zambia: A case of Mazabuka; Small town sustainability: problems & potentials; 'Informal' settlements: A product of deficient formal land management policies?; Index. |
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