Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 16 Issue 4

All things must pass? Introduction to the special issue on post-Covid place marketing

Gary Warnaby, Dominic Medway, John Byrom

The purpose of this introductory paper is to outline the theme of – and introduces the papers comprising – this special issue on post-Covid place marketing.

The place of charity shops post Covid-19

Neil Robinson, Nicholas Catahan, Crispin Dale, Chris Doran

Charity shops have met a number of challenges in light of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper aims to explore the economic and social impact of charity shops and…

Towards an experiential identity of place: the case of Manchester’s Craft and Design Centre

Alexandros Skandalis

The aim of this paper is to explore the role and potential of lived experiences in informing and shaping the formation of place identity within the sphere of the production and…

The Double Jeopardy in high street footfall

Charles Graham, Grace O'Rourke, Kamran Muhammad Khan

Calls for empirical and theory-based outcome measures in the place marketing literature are made more pressing as policymakers manage post-COVID high street recovery. This study…

COVID-19 and the participatory place branding impasse: a study of actor agency

Laura Reynolds

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on participatory place branding processes and, in particular, on multiple actors’ ability to build agency.

Leveraging social capital to catalyse post-pandemic anti-fragility: the “Vilnius model”

Giannina Warren, Simona Grigaliūnaitė

This paper aims to delve into the interdependent connection between place branding and social capital, specifically focusing on how it contributes to uniting a city’s recovery…