Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.
Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions …

This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing
role as centers of creative economic activity. It attempts to put some conceptual and …

This special issue features ethnographies that examine the trajectories of mobile people
within particular places, moments and networks of connection. Critiquing the ready equation …

GWF Hegel famously suffered from procrastination whenever starting the argument in a
book. He would write distinctly long prefaces and introductions and in each of them he spent …

Series Editor: Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin global connections builds on the multi-
dimensional and continuously expanding interest in globalization. The main objective of the …

This paper explores notions of cosmopolitanism and the'cosmopolitan city'to interrogate how
difference is constructed and treated in the contemporary entrepreneurial city. This is …

This article concentrates on the 'post migrant'perspective formulated by migration scholars
and cultural producers in to analyse migrant subjectivities, and practices beyond the …

In the current literature on festivals, significant emphasis is placed on the importance of the
festival setting as a space for the articulation, performance and rediscovery of identity …

An urban problematic is identified by reference to the essential characteristics of cities as
spatially polarized ensembles of human activity marked by high levels of internal symbiosis …

While brands are recognized as salient features of the cultural and economic life of cities,
the specificity of brands and their impact on urban life has been insufficiently analyzed …