Between co-creation and daily routine: challenges of volunteering people for (re) vitalizing their small town in Eastern Germany

Kummel, Olivia

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The small city in the urban system: complex pathways of growth and decline

Großmann

Mallach

2021

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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To paraphrase an old saying attributed, probably erroneously, to Abraham Lincoln, God must love small cities, because he (or she) made so many of them. By whatever reasonable definition, they vastly outnumber large cities in almost every country and contain significant shares of each nation's population. While Germany has three cities of over one million population, and 96 between 100,000 and 1 million, it has 1518 cities between 10,000 and 100,000, which contain 42 percent of the country's population. In much smaller Hungary, only Budapest, the national capital, has a population over 1 million, while there are seven cities between 100,000 and 1 million, and 137 between 10,000 and 100,000, containing roughly one-third of that nation's population. It seems clear that small cities are a significant part of the urban system.Research on small cities, defined for our purposes here as those between 10,000 and 100,000 population, is not completely absent from the social scientific literature; moreover, there is some evidence that attention to them is growing, as witness this special issue as well as a recent symposium in City & Community (Ocejo, Kosta, and Mann 2020). That said, there is ample evidence that they have not received attention reflecting their scale in the urban system. Notably, Ofori-Amoah ironically entitled his book on the subject Beyond the Metropolis: Geography as if Small Cities Mattered (2007), while Atkinson has written more recently that 'the vast majority of contemporary research and policy development has concentrated in large cities and metropolitan regions […] within the context of globalizing forces and international competition' (Atkinson 2019). Wagner and Growe flatly state that 'Small and medium-sized cities, which are considered to be neither agglomerations nor metropolitan areas nor located in remote rural areas, have been largely ignored in research' (2021, 106).We would suggest that much of this relative neglect arises from the perception by scholars that, while there may be a great many small cities, they are not particularly interesting; that is, that small cities fail to offer the sort of serious questions about urbanization and change that matter to scholars; as Ocejo et al. suggest Since the time of the Chicago School […] small cities were thought to lack inor even represent an antagonism tothe kinds of urbanity unfolding in the big cities that commanded and continue to command the overwhelming share of research attention. (2020, 3) Since most research is probably conducted by scholars at large universities in major centres, place bias may enter into the picture as well.This may reflect, in turn, the extent to which the scholarly perception of small cities tends to be dominated by stereotypical ideas and generalizations rather than by well-ground information and

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The small city in the urban system: complex pathways of growth and decline

Großmann

Mallach

2021

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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Am Ende Geländer

Gabler¹

2022

Kleinstadtforschung

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Julia Gabler verknüpft in diesem Beitrag künstlerische, wissenschaftliche, politische und alltagsweltliche Perspektiven, die im Strukturwandel der Lausitz zum Vorschein kommen. In der Kleinstadt Weißwasser steht nach 30 Jahren industriellem Niedergang in der Region die Frage: Was wird mit dem Kohleausstieg kommen? Die am kultursoziologischen Stil orientierte Analyse sozialer Praktiken in Diskursen, Alltagshandlungen und öffentlichen Verhandlungenbeschreibt das Ringen der Bürger_innen, Politiker_innen, Wissenschaftler_innen und Künstler_innen um die Zukunft vor dem Hintergrund je spezifischer Interpretationen der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart und die Frage, wie der aktuelle Strukturwandel gelingen kann.

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Zukunftsfähige Kleinstadt durch kollaborative Klimaanpassung?

Mitchell¹,

John²,

Jacob³

2022

Kleinstadtforschung

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Nicole Mitchell, Beatrice John und Klaus Jacob stellen in diesem Beitrag die im BMBF Verbundprojekt "GoingVis" entstandenen Governance- Plattformen zur teilhabeorientierten Klimaanpassung für Kleinstädte vor. Viele Kleinstädte verfügen über Potenziale für einen innovativen Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, der sich von und für größere Städten vorgedachten Ansätzen unterscheidet. Der Beitrag beschreibt die in der Kleinstadt Boizenburg/Elbe und der Verbandsgemeinde Liebenwerda entwickelten intermediären Plattformen und fokussiert dabei deren handlungsleitende Prinzipien, Kapazitäten und Funktionen. Das Ziel dieser Plattformen ist die kollaborative Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsaktivitäten ausgehend von der Stadtgesellschaft. Abschließend bewerten die Autor*innen die Wirksamkeit der Plattformen für die klimaresiliente Stadtentwicklung.

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Between co-creation and daily routine: challenges of volunteering people for (re) vitalizing their small town in Eastern Germany

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The small city in the urban system: complex pathways of growth and decline

The small city in the urban system: complex pathways of growth and decline

Am Ende Geländer

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