@inbook{af76f2ef226b4df6a82d6291bcfaed06,
title = "The troubling third tier: Small cities, small universities and an ambivalent knowledge economy",
abstract = " The challenges confronting small cities are vast: underemployment, decline in health and educational services, and depopulation. This chapter investigates the opportunities and problems when third-tier cities becoming education cities. These small cities and large towns are occasionally the location for a university, either the outlier campus of a metropolitan institution or part of a {\textquoteleft}regional{\textquoteright} university. Yet these campuses – in an environment of quality assurance monitoring and research assessment – confront multiple threats. This chapter explores the struggles confronted by regional universities and their pivotal role in the movement from an industrial to a knowledge economy.",
keywords = "small universities, culture and tourism, cultural landscape, creative practice",
author = "Tara Brabazon",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138310674",
series = "Routledge Advances in Sociology",
publisher = "Taylor \& Francis",
pages = "121--141",
editor = "\{Van Luyn\}, Ariella and \{de la Fuente\}, Eduardo",
booktitle = "Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity",
address = "United Kingdom",
}