explore the relationships between dispersal, local policy framings, and in‐ and outmigration to and from small towns, I apply … unmaking local migration policies. It can turn small towns into productive sites for migration governance, often transforming …

small towns are not sufficiently perceived and differentiated in scientific or political debates. Adequate research on small … questioned critically and small towns should be examined empirically in their diversity and differentiation. This involves paying … should address small towns more systematically than has been the case in the past. This position paper presents …

small towns are not sufficiently perceived and differentiated in scientific or political debates. Adequate research on small … questioned critically and small towns should be examined empirically in their diversity and differentiation. This involves paying … should address small towns more systematically than has been the case in the past. This position paper presents …

There is a systematic perception gap regarding small towns in spatial and social sciences. Stereotypical ideas about … 'the' small town have thus remained relatively unchallenged for a long time. What do we know about small towns - and what …, methods and data to conceptual questions of urbanity and rurality as well as of centrality and governance. Life in small towns …

In-depth consideration of the history of research on policy and urban planning in small towns reveals it to be … surprisingly diverse and multifaceted. It ranges from the municipal studies of the small towns of Bretten and Wertheim in Baden … of shrinking small towns in peripheral locations in the 1990s and 2000s. Two features become visible here. On the one …

scientific discussion and research on digitalisation or the digital transformation. To date, small towns have had to find their …