Journal of Place Management and Development: Volume 9 Issue 1

Changing places; placing change

Challenges, motivations, and desires of downtown revitalizers

Kara Mowery, Mathew Novak

This study aims to identify the motivations, challenges and desires of the various actors working in contemporary downtown revitalization in mid-sized cities.

Benchmarking parties’ obligations in the execution of concession-based PPP projects in Nigeria

Akintayo Opawole, Godwin Onajite Jagboro

Demand–supply matrices with adverse consequences has occasioned government response to concession initiatives in infrastructure in Nigeria. However, concession-based projects have…

Place branding as a strategic spatial planning instrument: A theoretical framework to branding regions with references to northern Portugal

Eduardo Oliveira

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the role of place branding, specifically at the regional scale, as an instrument for the attainment of strategic spatial…

Towards a network place branding through multiple stakeholders and based on cultural identities: The case of “The Coffee Cultural Landscape” in Colombia

Norberto Muñiz Martínez

This paper aims to analyse the creation of a place brand for Colombia’s coffee region, within the framework of the evolution of place branding from traditional, one…

Residents’ perception toward tourism development: a pre-development perspective

S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Mastura Jaafar

This paper aims to investigate the positive and negative perceptions of residents towards tourism development in Bujang Valley (Lembah Bujang), an underdeveloped rural area that…

The TramArt experience: domesticating graffiti in public transport

Liliana Arroyo Moliner, Gemma Galdon Clavell

This paper aims at presenting an example of the good practice of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). The initiative has been carried out by a private tram…