Twin Cities across Five Continents (eBook, PDF)

Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders
Redaktion: Mikhailova, Ekaterina; Garrard, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances - from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000479072
• Artikelnr.: 62735473

Autorenporträt

Ekaterina Mikhailova is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment, University of Geneva and Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International Development Studies (Swit\erland). Ekaterina's work lies at the crossroads of urban studies, border studies and Russian studies. John Garrard was Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at Salford University (UK) until 2011. Although primarily a historian, his central teaching and research interests have bordered with political science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Towards a Global Overview of Twin City Studies. Part 1:
Intranational Twin Cities. 2. Twin Cities in Medieval England: the Case of
Small Towns' Development. 3. The Continued Evolution of Fort William and
Port Arthur into the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. 4.
Banana-Benders and Cockroaches: Cross-Border Planning for Gold Coast-Tweed
Heads. 5. Chandigarh Tri-city: Between Conflict and Co-operation. 6.
Embryonic Twin Cities: Reggio Calabria and Messina in Italy. Part 2:
International Twin Cities A) in Europe. 7. Prussian Border Twin Towns: The
Urban Geopolitics of an Amorphous Territorial State. 8. Two Generations of
Eurocities along the Northern Section of the Spanish-Portuguese Border. 9.
The Past upon which the Future Dwells: Lines and Divisions in Former
Yugoslavia. Part 2: International Twin Cities B) in the Middle East and in
Africa. 10. Aqaba and Eilat: Twenty-Five Years of 'Good Neighborly
Relations' in a Post Conflict Environment. 11. Lomé and Aflao: Ambivalent
Affinity at the Togo-Ghana Border. 12. Ketu and Imeko: Yoruba Twin Cities
astride Bénin-Nigeria Border in West Africa. Part 2: International Twin
Cities C) in Asia. 13. Dandong and Sinuiju: Twin Towns on a Fragile Border.
14. Zabaikalsk and Manzhouli: Dynamic Asymmetry 15. Khorgos - the Making of
an Unequal Twin on the Sino-Kazakh Border. Part 2: International Twin
Cities D) in South America. 16. Transborder Dwelling in Albina (Suriname)
and Saint-Laurent (French Guiana) on the Lower Maroni. 17. The Oyapock
River Bridge as a One-way Street: (Un)bridgeable Inequalities in
Saint-Georges (French Guiana) and Oiapoque (Brazil). 18. The Everyday of
the Twin Cities of Chuí (Brazil) and Chuy (Uruguay): a Semiotic Analysis.
19. 'You Can't Have One Without the Other': Bilateral Relations between
Paraguay's Ciudad del Este and Brazil's Foz do Iguaçu. Part 2:
International Twin Cities E) in North America and the Caribbean. 20.
Niagara Twin Cities: 'Living Apart Together' on the Canada-US Border. 21.
Asylees, Removals, Returnees: Mexican Border Cities Response and Adaptation
to Mixed Migratory Flows. 22. Ouanaminthe and Dajaboìn: Two Unequal Cities
on the Haitian-Dominican Border. Part 3: Twin Cities in Fiction and
Editors' Dreams. 23. Twin Cities in China Miéville's Fiction. 24.
Conclusion: The twins that got away.