Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation

by Heike Mayer and Paul Knox

In an age where the globalization process is threatening the uniqueness and vitality of small towns, and where most urban planning discourse is directed at topics such as metropol-regions or mega-regions and world cities, the authors here emphasize the need to critically reflect on the potential of small towns.
They illustrate how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and based on case studies, movements, programs,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3038212512
• ISBN13: 9783038212515
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.4"