In het STAM in Gent organiseert het Ghent Urban Studies Team van de Universiteit Gent een driedaags colloquium over de middelgrote stad en haar beeldvorming.
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Urban life and the imageries surrounding it come in many shades and colors. The full spectrum however is little explored. Discussions in urban studies over the past two decades have been animated by the polarized attention to metropolitan urbanity on the one hand and to urban sprawl on the other. As yet, the mid-size city seems to be overlooked. Although the mid-size city presents the bulk of cities on the finely grained network of cities on the European continent, its middle of the road urbanity rarely stirs the imagination of the urban commentator.