Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 15 Issue 4

Street-level bureaucrats: tensions and challenges in online placemaking

Pieter Breek, Jasper Eshuis, Joke Hermes

Social media have become a key part of placemaking. Placemaking revolves around collaboration between multiple stakeholders, which requires ongoing two-way communication between…

Questing a walkable city: a case of urban neighbourhood walkability environment in Bangladesh

A.S.M. Shuaib, Md Masud Parves Rana

What makes neighbourhood environment more walkable is an important question for urban planning and design research. The purpose of this paper is to explore this question through a…

Does entrepreneur perception of the city’s decline matter to place attachment?

James M. Wilkerson, Frank M. Sorokach, Marwan A. Wafa

The purpose of this paper is to explore the association between local entrepreneurs’ perception of the city’s decline and their place attachment (measured in terms of commitment…

The territorial segmentation of coastal tourism areas

Moisés Simancas Cruz, María Pilar Peñarrubia Zaragoza, Raúl Hernández-Martín, Yurena Rodríguez Rodríguez

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the potential benefits of identifying homogeneous territorial units of the urban-tourism space at a local scale.

Role of place satisfaction and residents’ ambassadorship behaviours (RAB) on place attachment to city and neighbourhood

Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Saalem Sadeque, Md. Ashikuzzaman

This study aims to investigate how place satisfaction (SAT) and residents’ ambassadorship behaviour (RAB) are related to residents’ place attachment (PAtt). In addition, this…

Place branding in a bottle: management strategies for unplanned messages

Maria Briana

This paper explores an important yet overlooked concept in place branding literature, unplanned messages. Focusing on unplanned messages, this study aims to contribute to a better…

Coronavirus’ exposure of food, place and community resilience: a Welsh local authority perspective

Rebecca Jones, Eifiona Thomas Lane, Luke Prosser

Coronavirus has accentuated the cracks within the fragile UK food system. Empty shelves and empty stomachs, the damaging consequences of coronavirus have led to an unprecedented…

What if the local community is already well-off enough? Stakeholders’ conflicts over sustainable tourism development in remote communities

Islam Elgammal

This study aims to explore community involvement in sustainable tourism development (STD) at Siwa Oasis, Egypt, and examines the perspectives of local communities, visitors and…

Giving and taking ownership of a destination brand: mechanisms of stakeholder engagement

Alberte Tøttenborg, Can-Seng Ooi, Anne Hardy

This paper aims to explore the complexities of engaging with local stakeholders in destination branding. As the main creators and drivers of the destination brand, many brand…

The permanency of temporality: how grassroots festivals in Indonesia create places in informal settlements

Poeti Nazura Gulfira Akbar, Alexander Jachnow

This paper aims to investigate the impact of place-making on the quality of place through community-organised art festivals, with two case studies in urban informal settlements or…