Most people know L Frank Baum’s 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a small girl and her friends suffer a terrifying encounter with flying monkeys on their way to an Emerald City. Upon arrival, they go to a castle and argue with the city’s ruler, who is invisible and entirely ineffective. Frustrated,… Continue reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Parable for Liquor Licensing Law
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Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, edited by Bas van Heur and Anne Lorentzen
I’ve become a big fan of Bas van Heur lately. Asides from heading Cosmopolis, he writes a lot about small and regional cities. He’s got a great chapter on “Small Cities and the Sociospatial Specificity of Economic Development” in a book he’s co-edited with Anne Lorentzen called Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities (2011). For… Continue reading Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, edited by Bas van Heur and Anne Lorentzen