Closing the gap between theory and practice presents a major challenge for branding.
However, a disconnect has formed between city branding research and practice. This article …

This paper focuses upon the emergence of the night‐time economy both materially and
culturally as a powerful manifestation of post‐industrial society. This emergence features two …

This paper draws on the 'entrepreneurial turn'literatures to examine the current
redevelopment of East Manchester. It makes three contributions to our existing empirical and …

EU initiatives provide urban institutions and actors across Europe with new and
unprecedented access to information, legitimacy, and not least, financial support. From …

The contemporary night‐time economy has transformed British town centres into liminal
spaces where transgression does not subvert normative space, but establishes public …

Turkish governments have discovered the potential in regenerating inner-city squatter
housing areas, in order to increase the competitiveness of cities in the global context. Urban …

In many discussions of how cities in the global North are changing, the growing importance
of urban design is emphasised: that is, the production of visually and spatially coherent …

After decades of corporatist urban governance dominated by social democracy, Vienna is
undergoing a process of economic and political restructuring. This process is expressed …

The development of alcohol-based night-time economies as part of government-sponsored
post-industrial urban regeneration involves two interconnected political and economic …

This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we
govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes …