Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 17 Issue 3

Expanding the legal common good via sustainable urban mobility

Carlos J.L. Balsas

The purpose of this paper is to examine the 2015 Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Road World Cycling Championship in Richmond, Virginia.

Aesthetic atmospheres and their affordances in urban squares

Minna Eronen

This study aims to explore aesthetic atmospheres and their affordances in urban squares to advance knowledge on the research and design of attractive living environments.

Brand-driven identity development of places: application, evaluation and improvement suggestions of the BIDP-framework

Davide Maffei

The purpose of this paper is to assess the suitability of Botschen et al.’s (2017) Brand-driven Identity Development of Places (BIDP) framework to support places in developing…

Predicting city branding choices made by Chinese metropolitan cities: examining the impact of geographic context and national plans

Biying Zhu, Ju’e Guo, Martin de Jong, Yunhong Liu, Erlong Zhao, Gao Jing

This paper aims to examine the unique Chinese context by analyzing the city labels (e.g. smart city and eco city) used by Chinese local governments at or above the provincial…

Place attributes and company names: an empirical and conceptual study into public branding and business strategies

Narcís Bassols i Gardella, Christian Acevedo, Catalina Orjuela Martínez

This research finds out to what extent companies’ names are influenced by the place’s attributes versus the official branding policies of a place and, consequently, whether and…

Bracing community in rural coworking: emerging trends and categories

José Ignacio Sánchez-Vergara, Marko Orel, Valeria Ferreira, Andrej Rus

The objective of this study is to explore the concept of rural coworking in the scientific literature and examine how it generates community narratives based on the value of space…

Big trouble in little places: understanding the complexities of place micro-brands

Maria Fernandez de Osso Fuentes, Brendan James Keegan, Jenny Rowley, Esther Worboys

This paper aims to investigate place marketing and branding at the micro-place scale through the case study of St Christopher’s Place in London (UK). This study illustrates the…