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In an era in which the individuality and vitality of small towns are under threat from globalization, and city planning discussions tend to center on topics like metropolitan regions, megaregions, and global cities, the authors of this volume see a need to reflect critically on the potential of small towns. They show how small towns can meet the challenge of a fast-paced, globalized world, and they use case studies to introduce movements, programs, and strategies capable of effectively promoting local cultures, traditions, identities, and sustainability. Small towns often play critical roles in regional economic systems. When small towns focus on their specific characteristics and take advantage of their opportunities, they can become stable niches within regional, national, and global economies and take on an important role in shaping a sustainable future.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: beyond the city as object -- New trends -- Beyond the city as object -- Structure and ideas of the book -- The nature of cities -- Part 1: The evolution of production space -- 1. Typologies of capital, control, and space -- Production space -- Supply chains -- Industrial epochs -- Food -- Clothing -- Furniture -- Automobiles -- Industrial formations and their transformations -- 2. Pre-industrial workshops -- Food -- Cloth and clothing -- Furniture -- Transitions from craft to the factory system -- Toward the factory -- 3. Factory zones -- Industrial culture -- Architectural space is time is money -- The factory -- Factory design and modernism -- Food production and the abstraction of industry -- The structure of the industrial city -- The industrial economy as a growing spatial system -- 4. Cities adrift -- The global production system -- What enables globalization -- IKEA -- Globalization and the worker -- Positive aspects of globalized production -- Globalization and the city -- Globalization and the building -- Food and clothing -- Out of sight, out of mind -- In summary, a "mixed bag" -- 5. New work in old cities -- New manufacturing initiatives in cities -- On the business -- On how the location helps the business -- On the building in which they are located -- On the visibility of production -- On how industry might be helped by the city -- Part 2: The vitality of city life -- 6. Production and urban complexity -- Diversity -- The city as a complex adaptive system -- Shared properties of cities and ecological systems -- Production and the city -- The panarchy of the productive city -- 7. The terroir of things -- Kanchipuram silk -- Furniture and pianos -- Contemporary terroir -- Terroir in hybrids of the local and the global.

Introduction -- What is urban planning? -- Putting all the pieces together: the main components of an urban plan -- Hot topics and urban planning challenges -- Getting involved and going further -- The part of tens

Examines problems of democratization, particularly in Central and South Asia, in context of the global war on terrorism; US alliances with authoritarian governments, domestic factors including Islam, and whether democracy is "exportable".