Developing Frontier Cities

Global Perspectives Regional Contexts

By: Y. Gradus, Harvey Lithwick (Editor), Yehuda Gradus (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 November 1999

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The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge Harvey Lithwick and Yehuda Grad us The advent of government downsizing, and globalization has led to enormous com petitive pressures as well as the opening of new opportunities. How cities in remote frontier areas might cope with what for them might appear to be a devastating challenge is the subject of this book. Our concern is with frontier cities in particular. In our earlier study, Frontiers in Regional Development (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), we examined the distinction between frontiers and peripheries. The terms are often used interchangeably, but we believe that in fact, both in scholarly works and in popular usage, very different connotations are conveyed by these concepts. Frontiers evoke a strong positive image, of sparsely settled territories, offering challenges, adventure, unspoiled natural land scapes, and a different, and for many an attractive life style. Frontiers are lands of opportunity. Peripheries conjure up negative images, of inaccessibility, inadequate services and political and economic marginality. They are places to escape from, rather than frontiers, which is were people escape to. Peripheries are places of and for losers.

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International Journal of Population Geography, 7:1 (2001)

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: The Unique Nature of Frontier Cities and their Development Challenge	p. ix
Frontier Urban Development in a Global Context
Moving Frontiers: A Local-Global Perspective	p. 3
The Frontier Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century	p. 27
Institutional Requirements for New Local, National and Multinational Planning Realities in Europe	p. 45
The Future of Frontier Cities	p. 65
Living on the Edge: Conditions of Marginality in the Canadian Urban System	p. 77
Innovation Networks, Dynamic Externalities and Peripheral Cities in a Global Context	p. 99
Case Studies
Developing Frontier Cities: Lessons from the Cities of the Prairie Program	p. 117
Modernization and the Mobilization of Public Capital: Developing Pueblo, Colorado, 1960-1997	p. 141
Globalization and Cities in Frontier Regions: A Case Study of Northern Australia	p. 167
Competitive Advantage in Frontier Regions of Europe: Redefining the Global-Local Nexus	p. 189
Alternative Models of Urban Development in Frontier Regions: The Case of Friuli, Italy	p. 215
Local Initiatives in Peripheral Areas: An Intercultural Comparison Between Two Case Studies in Brazil and Austria	p. 233
The Polyurban Frontier in Post-Industrial Israel	p. 255
The Challenge of Industrial Development for Israel's Frontier Cities	p. 273
New Egyptian Desert Cities	p. 301
Urban Development at the Ecuador Amazon Frontier: Boom Towns or Gloom Towns	p. 313
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