Post-apartheid development challenges in smalltowns of the Free State
Orange Free State ; Smalltown ; South Africa ; Town ; Urban development
Current and future development challenges of smalltowns in South Africa in the post-apartheid era have been neglected. In an overview of smalltowns in the Free State current issues are identified and some development opportunities and ideas
Smalltown growth and development policy in Pakistan
Agricultural economics ; Location ; Pakistan ; Regional disparities ; Rural centre ; Rural development ; Smalltown ; Urbanization ; Urbanization of the countryside
This study examines the process of smalltown development and growth in Pakistan. The towns located in the agriculturally developed areas have better opportunities for development than the others. Although government economic development policies
have influenced the location and development of smalltowns, local leadership plays an important role in their socio-economic development.
The Importance of Leitbilder for Structural Chance in SmallTowns
Bad Schlema ; Decision making process ; Germany ; Gräfenhainichen ; Johanngeorgenstadt ; Saxony-Anhalt ; Smalltown ; Tourism ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban policy
The article deals with the role of Leitbilder for spatial development and the characteristics of smalltowns. At the examples of Bad Schlema, Gräfenhainichen and Johanngeorgenstadt the author shows the Leitbilder in smalltowns. Bad Schlema
Battlement esa: new life for a Colorado mining town
Colorado ; Community ; Energy ; Environment ; Oil ; Smalltown ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban function
Originally built as a residential town for energy resource workers, Battlement Mesa is now occupied by in-migrants, many from California, who seek small-town living in the Rockies. - (DWG)
The changing competitive relationship between smalltown centres and out-of-town retailing : town revival in South Wales
The article seeks to examine whether the reinvestment process has improved the commercial situation of a smalltown in the context of strong local competition and continued retail decentralisation. It is possible to reverse the commercial fortunes
Main street revisited: time, space, and image building in small-town America
Cultural studies ; Perception of the urban environment ; Regional disparities ; Smalltown ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban morphology
The smalltown is one of the key images of American culture. This work analyzes the origins and evolution of the image and why it has been such an important icon. Using examples from all over the USA, the A. places them in their spatial and temporal
Community ; Semiotics of space ; Social space ; Suburbs ; Town ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urban society
There is an imagined dichotomy between American big cities and smalltowns. The former are supposedly unfriendly, impersonal, and prone to social deviance. The latter are warm and friendly, like a nurturing extended family. A. argues
that these sterotypes have blinded us to locality-based communities within the big cities. He calls for a fuller understanding of how smalltown idealizations have influenced metropolitan America. - (SLD)
Migration to small Latin American cities: a critique of the concept of Fill-in migration
The fill-in concept was devised to describe the process of migration from rural areas to smalltowns in Latin America. The paper argues that the concept is theoretically unsound and is normally indistinguishable as a pattern from direct and/or step
movements. Indeed, the patterns of migration to and from smalltowns are far more complex than those suggested by the fill-in concept. The limited evidence available suggests that return migration is considerable and that the selectivity of in-migrants
reduces the debilitative effects of out-migration on smalltown populations.
The economic geography of regional festivals: beer drinking and smalltown Mississippi river festivals
Description of small-town annual festivals in the upper Mississippi valley, highlighting the differnetial attitudes between Minnesota (settled mainly by Scandinavians) and Wisconsin (settled mainly by Germans) in their laws toward alcoholic
Migrants and migrant-labour absorption in large and small centres in Swaziland. A comparative study of the towns Manzini and Nhlangano.
This is a study of regional inequality. Its objective is to contribute towards a further understanding of the relationships between urbanization, migration and regional development in general and of the role played therein by smalltowns
Common houses in America's smalltowns, the Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley.
Presentation of vernacular house characteristics and their geographical distributions based on surveys in 20 small study towns in the eastern half of the U.S.A. Typology of 67 dwelling types. These houses reflect American social, economic
Néhany gondolat a dél-alfoldi oriasfalvak kapcsan a kisvarosokrol. (Some thoughts on smalltowns in connection with the South Great Plain giant villages)
Giant villages mean the greatest problem in the settlement network of the area. The establishment of a smalltown network is necessary in the Great Plain and this settlement types should also occur formally in the settlement structure. (DLO).
A preliminary study on the scale of population in the planning of smalltowns.
In the course of economic growth, smalltowns see diversification in the employment structure of its population and the criteria non-agricultural population is getting more and more difficult to define. An improper definition of population sub
Regional order in the enterprise structures of selected Eastern Cape Karoo towns
Eastern Cape ; Economic development ; Firm ; South Africa ; Town ; Urban development
The urban enterprises of twelve towns in the Eastern Cape Karoo were identified, enumerated and classified into different business sectors. Statistical analyses were used to examine six hypotheses regarding the question as to whether smalltowns
exhibit a hidden order of proportionality. Older towns retained advantages in enterprise development. Enterprise diversities could be predicted accurately for large and smalltowns. An assessment was made of the strengths and weaknesses in enterprise
development of individual towns in the region. - (AJC)
Towards generic interventions to stimulate growth potential in smalltowns of the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Creative class ; Economic potential ; Green economy ; Smalltown ; South Africa ; Town ; Western Cape
There numerous smalltowns that fail to develop in South Africa. The main aim of the paper is to provide theoretical and practical discussion on recommendations for potential development strategies, particularly for those towns with a low and very
low development potential. It also suggests a number of generic intervention strategies for Western Cape smalltowns with low development and growth potential. These include cross-boundary collaboration, renewable energy, waste recycling, investing