City Twinning from a Grassroots Perspective: Introducing a Spatial Framework to the Study of Twin Cities

Kaisto, Virpi

doi:10.1080/08865655.2016.1238315

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“…The latter is reflected in the active cross-border civic society, and it is also visible in cyberspace, as evidenced by numerous FB groups targeting audiences from both parts of the divided town. Following Kaisto’s (2017) interpretation of Lefebvre´s spatial triad, there are many inhabitants of the studied space who identify with the twin-city concept. Their spatial perceptions, cross-border flows, and lived experiences involve both sides of the river and reflect a developed communality (Joenniemi and Sergunin 2011, 120).…”

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“…Kaisto (2017, 464) applied a spatial framework, inspired by Lefebvre’s spatial triad (Lefebvre 1974), which distinguishes between “perceived space, conceived space and lived space.” She argues that “individuals are likely to identify with the twin city if their spatial perceptions of and lived experiences in the twin city correspond with the associations they have of the concept” (Kaisto 2017, 459). She recommends paying more attention to how local citizens understand twin cities as concepts and as spaces for everyday life.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework To Study Divided Cities/townsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

Hans

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The article asks whether the divided town Cieszyn-Český Těšín can be considered a joint “living space” in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. It evaluates the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of the daily lives of the inhabitants and institutions of both parts of this divided town. Three main dimensions of cross-border integration were studied: cross-border flows, cross-border structures/institutions, and the feeling of togetherness, which represents an ideational dimension of cross-border integration. The research was based on studying narratives covering border closures in the divided town, the analysis of cross-borderness of existing Facebook groups acting in both parts of the divided town, and the results of an extensive questionnaire-based survey among its inhabitants. The border closures restricted cross-border flows, which hit cross-border commuters and damaged the quality of this divided town as a living place because it introduced uncertainty. However, the health crisis also showed the high level of mutual interconnections between the local inhabitants and a functional cross-border civic society. The local people and politicians tend to perceive the divided town as a joint living space. The level of cross-border integration highly exceeds the one usual in the “new EU.”

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Section: Theoretical Framework To Study Divided Cities/townsmentioning

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Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

Hans

2022

Nationalities Papers

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“…However, the coupling and coordination between regional flow factors and urban gravity have received less attention. At the theoretical research level, researchers such as Meijers et al (2014), Kavanoz and Erdem (2019), Kaisto (2017), and others have elaborated on the development status of urban integration from the perspective of twin cities or sister cities; researchers such as Hartt and Warkentin (2017), Arndt et al (2000), and others have actively carried out research on urban integration development circumstances and dynamical mechanisms of urban integration; and researchers such as Morrison and Dowell (2013), Ortega et al (2012), and others covered the functional complementarity between cities in urban integration areas, functional features analysis, and other aspects. In terms of data analysis and technology, the degree of coordinated development among cities reflects the degree of regional urban integration development.…”

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Using coupled people-gravity coordination as a measurement method and optimization strategy for urban integration: Use the Wuhan metropolitan area as an illustration

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Canhe

et al. 2022

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

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Inter-city population movement and attractiveness are two crucial representations for their examination. Measurement of coordination and structural optimization within urban integration zones are vital subjects in the context of regional integration. In order to measure the degree of coordination between population flow and attractiveness among cities in urban integration areas, this paper first combines the gravitational force model and the coupling coordination degree model; it then uses the urban integration areas around Wuhan as an example and analyzes the population flow and coordination between Wuhan and the neighboring cities based on the multi-year Unicom signaling data. In a targeted manner, it offers the optimization plan for each city based on the amount of cooperation. The results show that: (1) there is a significant difference between Wuhan and its neighboring cities in terms of population flow intensity, and (2) Wuhan’s urban integration areas’ overall coordination of population flow is unsatisfactory, with 23.08%, 46.15%, and 30.77% of the total number of cities demonstrating high, medium, and low coordination of population flow and urban attractiveness respectively. Based on the degree of flow coordination, four different types of development methods are provided to meet the development needs of various districts: all-around deep and coordinated development, increased flow intensity, increased attraction strength, and increased flow intensity and attraction strength. This research will help advance research on the coordination level of urban integration areas, utilize big data in territorial spatial planning systems, and support strategic decision-making in metropolitan areas.

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“…These links shape those urban pairs and translate into more or less formal relations that can become institutionalized, thus giving twin cities a political or administrative framework of governance (Buursink 2001;Ehlers 2001;Jańczak 2017;Ganster & Collins 2017). Finally, researchers have emphasized the "social base for [town] twinning" (Jańczak 2017): how these specific interactions give birth to specific regional cross-border identities (Bucken Knapp 2001), a sense of "belonging together" (Buursink 2001;Kaisto 2017).…”

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Cross-border Life in an American Exclave: Point Roberts and the Canada–US Border

Beylier

2021

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By applying a theoretical framework based on different models proposed in border studies literature, this article analyzes the morphological, functional, institutional and identity characteristics that make Point Roberts—an American exclave in the Pacific Northwest—a “cross-border town”. Using an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the author combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to examine the forces that link Point Roberts and the Canadian city of Delta that lies across the Canada–US border. This paper highlights the specificities of this unique geographic configuration as well the challenges that the border represents.

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City Twinning from a Grassroots Perspective: Introducing a Spatial Framework to the Study of Twin Cities

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

Using coupled people-gravity coordination as a measurement method and optimization strategy for urban integration: Use the Wuhan metropolitan area as an illustration

Cross-border Life in an American Exclave: Point Roberts and the Canada–US Border

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