Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 16 Issue 1

Enacting safe places – a study of (im)balancing acts in everyday city centre management

Cecilia Cassinger, Ola Thufvesson

The aim of this study is to outline a practice approach towards safety in public places whereby safety and place is understood as simultaneously produced in everyday work…

Sustainable city branding narratives: a critical appraisal of processes and outcomes

Laura Ripoll Gonzalez, Fred Gale

This study aims to explore whether adopting a sustainability narrative in city branding and urban development strategies results in more inclusive governance arrangements…

Rescripting Riyadh: how the capital of Saudi Arabia employs urban megaprojects as catalysts to enhance the quality of life within the city’s neighborhoods

Anna Klingmann

This study aims to investigate whether the correlation between Saudi Arabia’s social and economic reforms, urban megaprojects and sustainable urbanism can lead to an increased…

Façades as product wrap: a typology to identify the consumers affected by product design

Muhammad Aljukhadar

The elevation of a residential building, or façade, affords aesthetic and functional value to tenants. Façades embody the design of the core product, i.e. the building’s unit…

Gender and placemaking: talking to women about clean air and sustainable urban environments in changing cities

Maria Loroño-Leturiondo, Sam Illingworth

This purpose of this study is to explore the voices of women in conceptualizing a city with clean air, and how this relates to urban structural changes being made more…

Towards ecological place management in UK housing associations: organising tomorrow’s places

James Scott Vandeventer, Javier Lloveras, Gary Warnaby

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise how place management practices in UK housing associations (HAs) involve processes of ecological place management.

Amenity mix of innovation districts

Viriya Taecharungroj, Steve Millington

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast amenity mixes of innovation districts worldwide and to identify the types of amenities in the districts.