Developing Frontier Cities

by Lithwick, Harvey; Gradus, Yehuda

• ISBN13: 9780792360612
• ISBN10: 0792360613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book examines the impact of globalization on frontier cities, and how various frontier cities in different regions have responded to these forces. The volume includes a number of theoretical chapters exploring various aspects of global change, including the economic, spatial and geopolitical dimensions. A longer section includes a number of case studies of frontier cities that have adapted to these changes. A number of countries as well as city types, from small towns to frontier metropolises, are examined, providing a broad overview of developmental alternatives. Emphasis is placed on the importance of initiatives from below, that is, efforts that do not depend on the planning and budgetary resources of national governments, since these are generally no longer forthcoming in an era of government down-sizing. Audience: The book will appeal to students in planning, geography, economics and regional studies, as well as to local officials who are concerned with urban development strategies, and their prospects in the new millennium.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge	ix
Harvey Lithwick
Yehuda Gradus
Part One: Frontier Urban Development in a Global Context
Moving Frontiers: A Local-Global Perspective	3	(24)
Peter Nijkamp
The Frontier Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century	27	(18)
Derek R. Diamond
Institutional Requirements for New Local, National and Multinational Planning Realities in Europe	45	(20)
J.M. (Hans) Mastop
The Future of Frontier Cities	65	(12)
Joel Kotek
Living on the Edge: Conditions of Marginality in the Canadian Urban System	77	(22)
Larry S. Bourne
Innovation Networks, Dynamic Externalities and Peripheral Cities in a Global Context	99	(18)
Niles Hansen
Part Two: Case Studies
Developing Frontier Cities: Lessons from the Cities of the Prairie Program	117	(24)
Daniel J. Elazar
Modernization and the Mobilization of Public Capital: Developing Pueblo, Colorado, 1960--1997	141	(26)
Stephen L. Schechter
Globalization and Cities in Frontier Regions: A Case Study of Northern Australia	167	(22)
Kevin O'Connor
Competitive Advantage in Frontier Regions of Europe: Redefining the Global-Local Nexus	189	(26)
Shirley P. Dawe
John M. Bryden
Alternative Models of Urban Development in Frontier Regions: The Case of Friuli, Italy	215	(18)
Elena Saraceno
Local Initiatives in Peripheral Areas: An Intercultural Comparison Between Two Case Studies in Brazil and Austria	233	(22)
Walter Stohr
The Polyurban Frontier in Post-Industrial Israel	255	(18)
Saul B. Cohen
The Challenge of Industrial Development for Israel's Frontier Cities	273	(28)
Harvey Lithwick
Yehuda Gradus
New Egyptian Desert Cities	301	(12)
Dona J. Stewart
Urban Development at the Ecuador Amazon Frontier: Boom Towns or Gloom Towns	313
Roy Ryder
Lawrence A. Brown