Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 12 Issue 2

London’s local Olympic legacy: Small business displacement, ‘clone town’ effect and the production of ‘urban blandscapes’

Michael B. Duignan

London’s Candidature bid projected an irresistible legacy of lasting benefits for host communities and small businesses. Yet, local post-Games perspectives paint a contrasted…

Do students belong to Florida’s creative class?: An empirical study of students’ expectations regarding city attractiveness

Stefanie Wesselmann

In a knowledge-based society, one of the main driving forces of prosperity at city and regional levels is the ability to attract students and recently qualified graduates. The…

Of time and the city: curating urban fragments for the purposes of place marketing

Gary Warnaby

This paper aims to analyse the place marketing potential of historic urban “fragments”, with particular reference to old corporate identity symbols still extant in urban space.

Territory, firms and value co-creation synergies

Claudio Baccarani, Fabio Cassia, Chiara Rossato, Daniela Cavallo

Recent literature on the implications of applying service-dominant (S-D) logic to conceptualise value-creation processes views territory only as an operand resource (a resource…

The InstaBooth: an interactive methodology for community involvement and place-making

Mirko Guaralda, Severine Mayere, Glenda Caldwell, Jared Donovan, Markus Rittenbruch

Community involvement is a common strategy to negotiate changes to the built environment. Traditional community involvement approaches are increasingly augmented through playful…

Constructing a typology of virtual city brand co-creation practices: an ecological approach

Andrea Lucarelli

The paper aims to offer an approach that allows an analysis and construction of a typology of virtual city brand co-creation practices.

Fear dynamics in public places: a case study of urban shopping centers

Adewumi Israel Badiora, Bashir O. Odufuwa

This study aims to examine the relationships among some important factors and perceived personal safety in public places, using Nigerian urban shopping centers as case studies…