A few months back I did a talk at Trading Ideas, with Joanna Best from Troppo Architects, Charles Darwin PVC Giselle Byrnes, and one of my favourite Lord Mayors, Katrina Fong Lim. The thing I like most about Darwin is that, unlike so many cities in Australia, it isn’t hell bent on being anything other… Continue reading On the Merits of Darwin Not Being Copenhagen
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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