scholarly journals Small–City Gay Bars, Big–City Urbanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greggor Mattson
Keyword(s):  
Small City ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Big City ◽  
Gay Bars ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know of them comes largely from the gayborhoods of four “great cities.” This paper explores the similarities of 55 lone small–city gay bars to each other and the challenges they pose to the sexualities and urban literatures. Small–city gay bars have long been integrated with straight people in their often red–state communities; they are undifferentiated and unspecialized subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people, but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for large geographical regions whose residents nevertheless prefer small–city living for reasons, including proximity to kin or nature, and the fact that many big–city pleasures can be found everywhere. Contrasts between these findings and previous scholarship reveal the ways in which the latter has often implicitly defined urbanism and cosmopolitanism in terms of commercial diversity, as do studies of gentrification or gayborhoods. Small cities provide a way to integrate studies along the urban–rural interface, including places left to rural studies by both sexualities and urban scholarship. As an analytic object of comparison, small cities can help to disentangle urban effects from the cosmopolitanism of modern life generally.

scholarly journals Small-City Gay Bars, Big-City Urbanism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greggor Mattson
Keyword(s):  
Small City ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Big City ◽  
Gay Bars ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
The U.S

Despite the widely hailed importance of gay bars, what we know about them in the U.S. comes from outliers: gay neighborhoods in four big cities. This essay explores the similarities of 52 small-city gay bars to each other, and their differences from big-city gayborhood bars. Small-city gay bars are surprisingly integrated with straight people in their often red-state communities and are as racially diverse than the counties in which they reside. They are subcultural amenities not just for LGBT people but for straights as well, fostering cosmopolitan lifestyles for large geographical regions. I conclude with an argument for the importance of small cities to understand urbanism generally. Small cities are a key analytic object to disentangle urban effects from modern life generally. They reveal the way in which contemporary urban scholars often implicitly define urbanism in terms of commercial diversity at the expense of the reasons why many people prefer to live in small cities: proximity to kin or nature, and the fact that most big-city pleasures can be found everywhere. Studying small cities provides one way of integrating studies along the urban-rural interface and developing a more holistic, empirically rich, and theoretically sound sociology of place.

scholarly journals Physical-geographical conditions of the creating and developing of the small cities of Lviv region

2015 ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Yuriy Zhuk
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Small City ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Natural Factors ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The Impact

Small cities serve important functions in the territorial and economic system of the country. They are essential elements of the settlement network, which involved in industrial production, agricultural service of the surrounding areas, perform the transport functions. They are cultural, recreational and scientific centres. Significant impact on the functioning of small cities is connected with natural factors – the relief, climate, forests, land and mineral resources. Combined with the historical development, they played a crucial role in the formation of settlement network. Influence of terrain, including its plainness, the proximity of groundwater affects the location of settlements in high, watershed areas, the size of settlements, settlement features. The impact of physical-geographical conditions of Lviv region on creation and development of small cities are described in the article. The classification of small cities of Lviv region by the physicalgeographical regions was done. The physical-geographical regions of Lviv region and their suitability for the creating of the cities in the past are analysed. Keywords: a small city, physical-geographical conditions, the natural potential of the area.

Research on the Space Linking up Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan under the Background of Environmental-Friendly Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2529-2532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Xiang Hu ◽  
Yue Wu ◽  
Xin Hai Li
Keyword(s):  
Water Area ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Environmental Friendly ◽  
Space Pattern ◽  
Big City ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Basic Characteristics

The urban-rural integration is suggested to be used in the urbanization of Changsha-zhuzhou-Xiangtan (CZT),according to the characteristics of the space linking up three cities on the basis of the existing research results . the landscape pattern of the space should be small cities-towns-forest land-cropland -water area by insisting on the rule of people-oriented and the natural environment least destroyed.The space should be environment-friendly that the model of the big city construction doesn’t be totally copied.At last,the suggestions on the basic characteristics of the space pattern are put forward

scholarly journals CREATIVE INITIATIVES OF THE POPULATION OF SMALL CITIES IN THE PERM REGION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Базарьева Лилия ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Population ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Small City ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Special Weight ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Perm Region

The article describes the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population of small towns of the Perm Territory in various aspects of modern life. It is emphasized that small cities have a special weight of historical and cultural plan. The article reflects the close relationship of small towns with villages and rural settlements in the administrative, cultural and socioeconomic terms. The example of a number of small cities in the Perm region shows the manifestation of creative initiatives of the population in different spheres of life of a small city and their impact on the sociocultural condition of the rural population.

scholarly journals A recurrent neural network for urban long-term traffic flow forecasting

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 3252-3265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Belhadi ◽  
Youcef Djenouri ◽  
Djamel Djenouri ◽  
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Parallel Implementation ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Neural Network Approach ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Big City

Abstract This paper investigates the use of recurrent neural network to predict urban long-term traffic flows. A representation of the long-term flows with related weather and contextual information is first introduced. A recurrent neural network approach, named RNN-LF, is then proposed to predict the long-term of flows from multiple data sources. Moreover, a parallel implementation on GPU of the proposed solution is developed (GRNN-LF), which allows to boost the performance of RNN-LF. Several experiments have been carried out on real traffic flow including a small city (Odense, Denmark) and a very big city (Beijing). The results reveal that the sequential version (RNN-LF) is capable of dealing effectively with traffic of small cities. They also confirm the scalability of GRNN-LF compared to the most competitive GPU-based software tools when dealing with big traffic flow such as Beijing urban data.

From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement among the Urban Middle Class

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Ocejo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New York City ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
York City ◽  
Small City ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The City

As large cities become unaffordable, some people in the urban middle class are moving to small cities but risk replicating gentrification and its harms. Based on a qualitative research project on Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, this paper examines the narratives that middle-class urbanites construct to make sense of this migration, their new urban environment, and their place within it. These narratives describe their decision to move (migration) and their everyday lives in the city (settlement). Most importantly, their narratives are shaped by their social positions as both displaced residents and gentrifiers and as both consumers and producers of space. But despite being self-aware gentrifiers, their settlement narratives lack reflections on their own displacement from New York City, and instead emphasize how they try to mitigate gentrification’s harms. The paper concludes with a discussion of what makes gentrifiers in small cities distinct from those in large ones.

scholarly journals Global mapping of urban–rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. e2011990118
Author(s):  
Andrea Cattaneo ◽  
Andrew Nelson ◽  
Theresa McMenomy
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Access To Services ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Rural Catchment

Using travel time to cities of different sizes, we map populations across an urban–rural continuum to improve on the standard dichotomous representations of urban–rural interactions. We extend existing approaches by 1) building on central place theory to capture the urban hierarchy in access to services and employment opportunities provided by urban centers of different sizes, 2) defining urban–rural catchment areas (URCAs) expressing the interconnection between urban centers and their surrounding rural areas, and 3) adopting a global gridded approach comparable across countries. We find that one-fourth of the global population lives in periurban areas of intermediate and smaller cities and towns, which challenges the centrality of large cities in development. In low-income countries, 64% of the population lives either in small cities and towns or within their catchment areas, which has major implications for access to services and employment opportunities. Intermediate and small cities appear to provide catchment areas for proportionately more people gravitating around them than larger cities. This could indicate that, for countries transitioning to middle income, policies and investments strengthening economic linkages between urban centers and their surrounding rural areas may be as important as investing in urbanization or the rural hinterlands. The dataset provided can support national economic planning and territorial development strategies by enabling policy makers to focus more in depth on urban–rural interactions.

scholarly journals Kading, T. (Ed.). (2018). No straight lines: Local leadership and the path from government to governance in small cities. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press.

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jilks
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Small City ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
Straight Lines

What does it mean to live in a small city? Metropolises tend to get a lot of attention, but many Canadians spend their lives in significantly smaller urban centres. Social issues in smaller cities are fueled by the same systemic problems faced in larger centres, and there’s some important work being done to address these problems. In this edition, we examine how action research explores issues around critiquing and reconceiving community in small cities.

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