Twin cities across five continents : interactions and tensions on urban borders /: interactions and tensions on urban borders. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ekaterina Mikhailova and John Garrard.
• Editors: (Postdoctoral researcher), Mikhailova, Ekaterina; Garrard, John
• Contents: List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements List of contributors Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Global Overview of Twin City Studies; Ekaterina Mikhailova Part 1: Intranational Twin Cities Chapter 2: Twin Cities in Medieval England: the Case of Small Towns’ Development; Anna Anisimova Chapter 3: The Continued Evolution of Fort William and Port Arthur into the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; Michel S. Beaulieu and Jenna L. Kirker Chapter 4: Banana-Benders and Cockroaches: Cross-Border Planning for Gold Coast-Tweed Heads; Paul Burton and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes Chapter 5: Chandigarh Tri-city: Between Conflict and Co-operation; Ganeshwari Singh, Simrit Kahlon and Ekaterina Mikhailova Chapter 6: Embryonic Twin Cities: Reggio Calabria and Messina in Italy; Dario Musolino and Luigi Pellegrino Part 2: International Twin Cities A) in Europe Chapter 7: Prussian Border Twin Towns: The Urban Geopolitics of an Amorphous Territorial State; Thomas Lundén Chapter 8: Two Generations of Eurocities along the Northern Section of the Spanish-Portuguese Border; Juan-M. Trillo-Santamaría, Valerià Paül and Roberto Vila-Lage Chapter 9: The Past upon which the Future Dwells: Lines and Divisions in Former Yugoslavia; Dorte Jagetic Andersen Part 2: International Twin Cities B) in the Middle East and in Africa Chapter 10: Aqaba and Eilat: Twenty-Five Years of 'Good Neighborly Relations' in a Post Conflict Environment; Tamar Arieli Chapter 11: Lomé and Aflao: Ambivalent Affinity at the Togo-Ghana Border; Paul Nugent Chapter 12: Ketu and Imeko: Yoruba Twin Cities astride Bénin-Nigeria Border in West Africa; Anthony Asiwaju Part 2: International Twin Cities C) in Asia Chapter 13: Dandong and Sinuiju: Twin Towns on a Fragile Border; Tony Michell Chapter 14: Zabaikalsk and Manzhouli: Dynamic Asymmetry; Vladimir Kolosov Chapter 15: Khorgos – the Making of an Unequal Twin on the Sino-Kazakh Border; Verena La Mela Part 2: International Twin Cities D) in South America Chapter 16: Transborder Dwelling in Albina (Suriname) and Saint-Laurent (French Guiana) on the Lower Maroni; Clémence Léobal Chapter 17: The Oyapock River Bridge as a One-way Street: (Un)bridgeable Inequalities in Saint-Georges (French Guiana) and Oiapoque (Brazil) ; Fabio Santos Chapter 18: The Everyday of the Twin Cities of Chuí (Brazil) and Chuy (Uruguay): a Semiotic Analysis; Gianlluca Simi Chapter 19: ‘You Can't Have One Without the Other’: Bilateral Relations between Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este and Brazil’s Foz do Iguaçu ; Omri Elmaleh Part 2: International Twin Cities E) in North America and the Caribbean Chapter 20: Niagara Twin Cities: ‘Living Apart Together’ on the Canada-US Border; Nick Baxter-Moore and Munroe Eagles Chapter 21: Asylees, Removals, Returnees: Mexican Border Cities Response and Adaptation to Mixed Migratory Flows; Hilda Garcia-Perez and Francisco Lara-Valencia Chapter 22: Ouanaminthe and Dajaboìn: Two Unequal Cities on the Haitian-Dominican Border; Lena Poschet El Moudden Part 3: Twin Cities in Fiction and Editors' Dreams Chapter 23: Twin Cities in China Miéville’s Fiction; Catherine Olea Johansen, Ruben Moi, Ekaterina Mikhailova and John Garrard Chapter 24: Conclusion: The twins that got away; John Garrard Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.76; Cities and towns; Borderlands; Interregionalism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000479119; 9781000479072; 9781003102526
• Related ISBNs: 9780367609221
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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