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How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by ‘world cities’ and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attract resources and initiate development. Placemaking has become an important tool for driving urban development that is sensitive to the needs of communities. This volume examines the development of creative placemaking practices that can help to link small cities to external networks, stimulate collaboration and help them make the most of the opportunities presented by the knowledge economy. The authors argue that the adoption of more strategic, holistic placemaking strategies that engage all stakeholders can be a successful alternative to copying bigger places. Drawing on a range of examples from around the world, they analyse small city development strategies and identify key success factors. This book focuses on the case of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a small Dutch city that used cultural programming to link itself to global networks and stimulate economic, cultural, social and creative development. It advocates the use of cultural programming strategies as a more flexible alternative to traditional top-down planning approaches and as a means of avoiding copying the big city.

small town --- image --- development plan --- economic development --- artistic creation --- cultural policy --- collaborative economy --- public-private partnership --- knowledge economy --- public-private partnership. --- knowledge economy.

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This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment. The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Titicaca Lake Region (Peru and Bolivia) --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- andean highlands. --- andes mountains. --- anthropology. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- economics. --- economy. --- environment. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- fishing. --- geography. --- global. --- highlands. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous villages. --- lake titicaca. --- landscape. --- meditation. --- memoir. --- modern world. --- natural world. --- nature. --- peru. --- peruvian mountains. --- peruvian. --- regional. --- small town. --- sustainability. --- technology. --- true story. --- villagers.

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In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply entrenched racism. Telling stories through the unique lens of an initially credulous outsider who is "fresh off the plane," Singh learns about the struggles of his colleagues: Ron, a middle-aged African-American man trying to keep his life intact despite health concerns; Jackie, a young African-American woman diligently attending school after work; and Cindy, whose matter-of-fact attitude helps Deepak adapt to his job and his new life. How May I Help You? is an incisive take on life in the United States and a reminder that the stories of low-wage employees can bring candor and humanity to debates about work, race, and immigration.

Foreign workers --- Working poor --- Immigrants --- Poor --- Working class --- Economic conditions. --- Employment --- United States --- african american. --- american history. --- black americans. --- career. --- careers. --- co workers. --- colleagues. --- community. --- culture. --- electronics. --- emotional. --- immigrant story. --- immigrant. --- immigration. --- indian culture. --- indian immigrant. --- jobs. --- low wage. --- minimum wage. --- motivational. --- new life. --- race issues. --- race. --- racism. --- racist. --- retail. --- small town. --- starting over. --- true story. --- united states. --- virginia. --- workplace issues. --- workplace.

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Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt to define the power of this wild place was a tantalizing and, as it turned out, dangerous quest. This compelling and eerie memoir tells of Fradkin's odyssey through recorded human history and eventually to the bay itself, as he explores the dark and unyielding side of nature. Natural forces have always dominated Lituya Bay. Immense storms, powerful earthquakes, huge landslides, and giant waves higher than the world's tallest skyscrapers pound the whale-shaped fjord. Compelling for its deadly beauty, the bay has attracted visitors over time, but it has never been mastered by them. Its seasonal occupants throughout recorded history-Tlingit Indians, European explorers, gold miners, and coastal fishermen seeking a harbor of refuge-have drowned, gone mad, slaughtered fur-bearing animals with abandon, sifted the black sand beaches for minute particles of gold, and murdered each other. Only a hermit found peace there. Then the author and his small son visited the bay and were haunted by a grizzly bear. As an environmental writer for the Los Angeles Times and western editor of Audubon magazine, Fradkin has traveled from Tierra del Fuego to the North Slope of Alaska. But nothing prepared him for Lituya Bay, a place so powerful it turned one person's hair white. This story resonates with echoes of Melville, Poe, and Conrad as it weaves together the human and natural histories of a beautiful and wild place.

Violence --- Natural disasters --- Natural history --- History. --- Fradkin, Philip L. --- Travel --- Lituya Bay Region (Alaska) --- alaska. --- animals. --- coastal. --- environmental history. --- environmental. --- explorers. --- fishing. --- fjords. --- gold mining. --- gulf of alaska. --- historian. --- human history. --- indians. --- indigenous people. --- lituya bay. --- memoir. --- natural features. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- nature. --- northern united states. --- settlers. --- small town. --- tourism. --- tourists. --- true story. --- violence. --- visitors. --- western united states. --- world history.

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This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both succinct and accessible. In its first complete English-language edition, it is likely to have a wide impact on Western social theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures Fei's jargonless, straightforward style of writing. Their introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist, the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the sociological significance of his analysis. The translators' epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same period.

S11/0480 --- S20/0200 --- China: Social sciences--Rural life, rural studies: general and before 1949 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--General works and before 1949 (incl. traditional Chinese works and the Yueling) --- China --- Social conditions. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- 1940s. --- academic. --- analysis. --- asia. --- asian countries. --- asian. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese society. --- community. --- confucius. --- countryside. --- cultural studies. --- ethics. --- gender studies. --- interpersonal. --- legal issues. --- morals. --- relationships. --- rural. --- scholarly. --- small town. --- social science. --- social scientist. --- social studies. --- social theory. --- sociology. --- translation. --- western world.