Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas
This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-199049 2023-10-09T21:49:19+02:00 Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas Carson, Doris A. Carson, Dean B. Argent, Neil 2022 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-199049 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.012 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi Umeå universitet, Institutionen för epidemiologi och global hälsa School of Business and Law, CQUniversity, Australia University of New England Journal of Rural Studies, 0743-0167, 2022, 93, s. 104-111 orcid:0000-0002-8439-2640 orcid:0000-0001-8143-123x http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-199049 doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.012 ISI:000808003700006 Scopus 2-s2.0-85131598811 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Sparsely populated areas (SPAs) Urbanisation Microurbanisation Growth centre Boomtown Spillover Disconnectedness Urban-rural migration Regional development Social and Economic Geography Social och ekonomisk geografi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2022 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.012 2023-09-22T13:59:57Z This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly found in Arctic, Outback and similar remote resource peripheries of developed countries. Many SPAs are rapidly urbanising, with polarised development becoming an ever-increasing concern for regional planners and policy-makers. This special issue contributes to debates about the impact that urban growth and city-centric development strategies in SPAs might have on the development prospects for small and distant settlements in the hinterland. We first discuss why SPAs are different from other rural contexts when it comes to urban-rural interactions and introduce the idea of regional disconnectedness as a defining feature of SPAs. We then review the papers in this collection, which include perspectives from northern Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Scotland, Alaska, and Australia, and position them according to their contributions to theory, policy and practice. The special issue challenges assumptions that city-centric regional development in SPAs will automatically generate spillover or backwash effects for the hinterland. It emphasises the need to consider diverse mobility flows within SPAs as part of urban-rural interactions. It also raises attention to micro-scale urbanisation within the hinterland, with housing, services, and amenities increasingly concentrating in a few small towns. The final discussion outlines important areas for research into more effective urban-rural partnership building in SPAs and on how to embrace regional disconnectedness for more targeted hinterland development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Iceland Northern Sweden Alaska Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Arctic Journal of Rural Studies 93 104 111 |
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Sparsely populated areas (SPAs) Urbanisation Microurbanisation Growth centre Boomtown Spillover Disconnectedness Urban-rural migration Regional development Social and Economic Geography Social och ekonomisk geografi Carson, Doris A. Carson, Dean B. Argent, Neil Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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This article introduces the special issue ‘Rural hinterland development in sparsely populated areas (SPAs): new challenges and opportunities arising from urbanisation within the periphery’. It problematises the relationships between growing cities and hinterland areas in SPAs, such as those commonly found in Arctic, Outback and similar remote resource peripheries of developed countries. Many SPAs are rapidly urbanising, with polarised development becoming an ever-increasing concern for regional planners and policy-makers. This special issue contributes to debates about the impact that urban growth and city-centric development strategies in SPAs might have on the development prospects for small and distant settlements in the hinterland. We first discuss why SPAs are different from other rural contexts when it comes to urban-rural interactions and introduce the idea of regional disconnectedness as a defining feature of SPAs. We then review the papers in this collection, which include perspectives from northern Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Scotland, Alaska, and Australia, and position them according to their contributions to theory, policy and practice. The special issue challenges assumptions that city-centric regional development in SPAs will automatically generate spillover or backwash effects for the hinterland. It emphasises the need to consider diverse mobility flows within SPAs as part of urban-rural interactions. It also raises attention to micro-scale urbanisation within the hinterland, with housing, services, and amenities increasingly concentrating in a few small towns. The final discussion outlines important areas for research into more effective urban-rural partnership building in SPAs and on how to embrace regional disconnectedness for more targeted hinterland development. |
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Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : Perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development : perspectives from sparsely populated areas |
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi |
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