Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 10 Issue 3

Editorial

Dominic Medway, Gareth Roberts, Cathy Parker

The magic of place branding: regional brand identity in transition

Cecilia Cassinger, Jörgen Eksell

The purpose of this paper is to examine the transition of a place brand identity from a cultural anthropological perspective. More specifically, the paper analyses the ritual…

Participatory planning in Israel: from theory to practice

Batel Eshkol, Alon Eshkol

This paper aims to investigate the gap between the declarations regarding participatory planning and its actual implementation in practice within the Israeli spatial planning…

The placement of country reputation towards place management

Fabiana Gondim Mariutti

Until now, scholars have devoted insufficient attention to theories of place reputation – at the city, region and country levels. Furthermore, the literature does suggest a…

Two concepts of community in the Niger Delta: Social sense of communality, and a geographical sense of place. Are they compatible?

Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor, Tim Gray, Selina Stead

This paper aims to understand what two apparently contrasting concepts of communality and place attachment say about the quality of community life in the Niger Delta.

Questioning a “one size fits all” city brand: Developing a branded house strategy for place brand management

Sebastian Zenker, Erik Braun

City branding has gained popularity as governance strategy. However, the academic underpinning is still poor, and city branding needs a more critical conceptualization, as well as…

Media visibility and place reputation: does sport make a difference?

Hallgeir Gammelsæter

The paper aims to contribute to the research field on the reputation effects of hosting sport entities. It asks if sport by boosting the visibility of places increases the…

4th Corfu Symposium on Managing and Marketing Places, 24-27 April 2017

Heather Skinner

Call for papers

Heather Skinner