External forces always shape the social construction of 'the local'. In this article we offer a
framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and …

This article investigates place-branding as a contested “cultural politics.” Through a case
study of the creation of a “Downtown” Pomona (California) from the “Antiques Row” and “Arts …

Building on the literature on global cities and on the worlding of cities, the articles in this
special issue chart how cities outside Europe and North America try to reinvent and rescale …

Building on over a century of social science exploring the'culture of cities', 1 this paper
focuses on the so-called'cultural turn'in contemporary urban transformation (Peck 2005). The …

The question I will be addressing in the presentation is what makes public space public?
Focusing on how city inhabitants themselves make this distinction (rather than political …

Life takes space very seriously. Every organism depends on its capacity to engage with its
environment and every form of life reaches out to deal with space in some way or another …

Engaging with both place and 'the local'has become an important part of cultural policy
rhetoric in many countries, from the resurgence of city-regional governance models to calls …

In this paper, I make use of the comparative method to discuss two social movements for
urban grassroots transformation, Collectif 7‐à‐Nous in Montréal, Canada, and Project …

The mobile global discourse on culture's prominent role in driving development policies is
increasingly influencing small cities and rural communities. Global networks of information …

in cities contained in the present volume. Some of them, but not all; for the chapters reflect a
diversity of city experiences and situations in the context of globalization that is far too great …