Actual and possible role of smalltowns in the settlement network of the Great Hungarian Plain
Smalltowns in the Great Plain do not as yet function as key settlements. The analogues of giant villages are found in South Europe (Spain and southern Italy) and the place of smalltowns is ambiguous elsewhere in socialist countries, too. Types
New approaches to promoting the development of small and medium-sized towns within technical cooperation programmes in Equity with growth? Planning perspectives for smalltowns in developing countries.
Smalltowns and national settlement strategy development: some policy implications from southern and East Africa in Equity with growth? Planning perspectives for smalltowns in developing countries.
Copper ; Honshu ; Japan ; Mine ; Pollution ; Smalltown ; Tourism ; Urban history
The smalltown of Ashio, 110 km from Tokyo, is an old copper mining town whose population has fallen 80% since its heyday. In spite of a pollution problem, efforts are made there to turn the town into a tourist attraction. - (DWG)
The article discusses about governance settings and town planning aim with project-orientated planning. In many smalltowns and medium scale towns in West Europe, the concept is implementing. The paper deals with the case study Effretikon (a small
Swiss town with 15 000 inhabitants). The report gives an overview about attendant policy and strategic navigation for small and medium scale towns. - (IfL)
Labour markets and migrant absorption in smalltowns. The case of northern Costa Rica
Costa Rica ; Economic structure ; Employment ; Labour market ; Migration ; Peripheral region ; Smalltown
The subject of this study is the absorption of migrants into the labour markets of three small and intermediate urban centres (SIUCs) in a non-metropolitan region in Costa Rica. The eight chapters deal with the regional context of the study
Economy ; Germany ; Globalization ; Smalltown ; Town
Smalltown are often considered to be losers of transformation and globalization processes. In Central Germany they suffered from the decline of their in economic base after the demise of the planning economy. Population decline often set in already
before 1990, due to urban decay. The paper examines small city developments after 1990. The analysis reveals a wide variation of developments: Smalltowns in suburban locations and those with important central place functions shows more favorable
development pattern than those in peripheral locations and smalltowns in lagging regions. - (IfL)
Conceptualizing smalltowns as urban places : the process of downtown redevelopment in Galena, Illinois
Attendance ; Cultural patrimony ; Historic centre ; Illinois ; Redevelopment ; Site preservation ; Smalltown ; Tourism ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban district ; Urban function
Hungary ; New town ; Settlement ; Smalltown ; Urban function ; Urban geography
It is typical of the new smalltowns that they create their infrastructural networks on their own, but they are unable to satisfy the requirements of the inhabitants from the surrounding settlements. The provision of supply for these villages makes
these smalltown overloaded and they could hardly cope with the task. One of the main findings of the present study, that future strategies of settlement development should be based on the microregions rather than on single settlements. - (ZK)
The small-town viability question in a prairie context
The phenomenon of population reversal away from major urban centres to smalltowns is considered in a Canadian context. Specifically, the paper examines towns from the Manitoba portion of the prairies which have benefited from modest population gain
Reworking the geography of the long boom : the smalltown experience of restructuring in Reefton, New Zealand
Economic base ; Economic restructuring ; Employment ; Government intervention ; Local economy ; New Zealand ; Smalltown ; South Island ; Town ; Urban economy ; Workplace
During the post war long boom, the regulatory arrangements of the social democratic policy found expression as a distinctive geography. This was typified in smalltowns by clusters of agencies associated with the state's intervention in production
and its provision of infrastructure. During the restructuring of the 1980s, the reworking is explored through a focus on the major state and private sector workplaces within the town's economic base and their employees.
In this paper, authors examine the structure and hierarchy of the group of towns having maximum 30000 inhabitants. The aim was to show how the smalltowns act among circumstances of the new spatial development processes. - (AM)