This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge about how festivals contribute to
shaping the functioning of urban areas. The past 15 years or so have seen a remarkable rise …

Festival and Events Management: an international perspective is a unique text looking at the
central role of events management in the cultural, tourism and arts industries. With …

This book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own
perspective and proposes a means by which they can act together to find a secure future …

The author sets out to interrogate the manner in which cultural festivals have been theorised
in the context of accounts of the role of civic boosterism—or what he terms 'Urban …

A widespread mania for being or becoming a “world city” dominates urban politics today
despite the fact that there is no consensus as to what such a thing is. While the economic …

This paper draws together two dominant themes in urban geography, cities as spectacle and
social polarization. Urban spectacle is provided by Sydney's preparations to host the 2000 …

Various forms of cooperation among local governments have long been advocated as
means to aggregate resources and demand in rural areas so that public services and …

This article reports on a study that explored economic development practitioners'
perceptions of competition and cooperation in economic development. The study was …

In Bargaining with Multinationals, Loewendahl scrutinises the relationship between
multinational companies, regional development and governments, using an international …

Earlier versions of regional policy have acknowledged a structural basis to spatial social
inequality but more recent manifestations have implicitly denied a structural element. This is …