The development mode of mid-small cities in northern Jiangsu is analyzed on the Growth Pole theory. Depending on scales …, endowment of resources, geographical positions, and industrial advantages of mil-small cities, we can divide the development … mode of those mid-small cities within this context into five types: development through integration into big cities …

Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although … paper develops a conceptual framework and agenda for the study of small cities in the global south, their environmental … dynamics, governance and politics in the current neoliberal context. While small cities are governed in a neoliberal policy …

strategies of many medium sized and small cities focus more on social objectives. This seems to be the case for Greek cities of …