Overview
- Builds new models for social and economic development after the global economic crisis
- Combines ‘bottom up’ community activism and ‘top down’ governmental policy interventions
- International focus with specific attention on global, second tier and third tier cities
- Activates the next stage of the creative industries, arching beyond Richard Florida’s 'The Rise of the Creative Class, Who’s Your City and The Great Reset'
- Combines Urban Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Tourism Studies, Communication, Cultural Studies and Media Studies and Urban and Regional Development
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 108)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Disconnection
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Intervention
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Keywords
- Attracting business and in-demand workers
- Branding and marketing of cities
- De-territorialization of the worldwide web
- Development of tourism
- Economic development
- Environmental damage, waste, unemployment, crime, violence
- Free flow of money, music and ideas
- Iconography of urbanity
- Imaginative policy development
- Paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living
- Productive experiences of urban life
- QR codes as virtual portals
- Security and the city
- Social justice
- Street performances in public spaces
- Urban living
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life.
The phrase ‘city imaging’ is often used in public discourse, but rarely defined. It refers to the ways that particular cities are branded and marketed. It is based on the assumption that urban representations can be transformed to develop tourism and attract businesses and in-demand workers to one city in preference to another. However, such a strategy is imprecise. History, subjectivity, bias and prejudice are difficult to temper to the needs of either economic development or social justice.
The taste, smell, sounds and architecture of a place all combine to construct the image of a city. For researchers, policy makers, activists and citizens, the challenge is to use or transform this image. The objective of this book is to help the reader define, understand and apply this process.
After a war on terror, a credit crunch and a recession, cities still do matter. Even as the de-territorialization of the worldwide web enables the free flow of money, music and ideas across national borders, cities remain important. City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal, Decay surveys the iconography of urbanity and explores what happens when branding is emphasized over living.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay
Editors: Tara Brabazon
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7234-2Published: 08 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0699-3Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7235-9Published: 26 September 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cities, Countries, Regions, Urbanism