Academic
If you want to find out more about the Cittaslow movement, we hope you find the following of interest.
Thesis on Cittaslow UK
To better understand and research Cittaslow, Newcastle University in partnership with Cittaslow UK was successful in attracting Collaborative Doctoral Award funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The award funded a study into what makes Cittaslow towns and people so special. It resulted in the doctoral thesis: Navigating Slow, ‘fast’ and crafted knowledges: Knowing through Cittaslow.
Videos
Navigating Cittaslow
Navigating Cittaslow a discussion between Dr Tessa Holland and Dr Helen Jarvis from School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University
Slow Heritage Recovery - Prof. Dr. Ing. Helmut Bott
Short video on Cittaslow by Prof Dr Ing. Helmut Bott, University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of Urban Planning and Design.
Sensory Global Towns: An Experiential Approach to the Growth of the Slow City Movement
20 March 2012; in revised form 24 June 2012
Sense and sustainability: The case of the Slow City movement
Pages 95-106 | Published online: 09 Apr 2008
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Ethnography, Co-design and Emergence: Slow Activism for Sustainable Design
Published Volume 9 Issue 2 – 2015 – Global Media Journal – Australian Edition
Sensing Cittàslow: Slow Living and the Constitution of the Sensory City
Pages 59-77 | Published online: 16 Apr 2015
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Community-led Housing and ‘Slow’ Opposition to Corporate Development: Citizen Participation as Common Ground?
First published: 15 April 2015
Dr Paul Knox was one of the first to look at Cittaslow as a counter cultural movement, and is the go to for research on post-industrial cities.
Creating Ordinary Places: Slow Cities in a Fast World
Pages 1-11 | Published online: 23 Jan 2007
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Slow Cities: Sustainable Places in a Fast World
Pages 321-334 | Published online: 02 Dec 2016
Papers
Paper on the Impact of “Supporter of Cittaslow” on Tourism Industry in Busan, South Korea
2010
Books
Doing Sensory Ethnography
Published: 23 July 2009
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Go Slow and Curvy: Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow Slow City Phenomenon, 2015
Published: 30 Nov 2015
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Situating Everyday Life
Published: 20 April 2012
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