Suchergebnisse

Like cities and nations, rural places have adopted the practice of place branding to improve their reputation and increase their competitiveness to attract residents, tourists, and consumers. This review aims to synthesize case studies of rural place branding in order to identify different types of processes applied and relating them to the contextual factors underlying their application. A typology of five rural place branding processes (PBP) is proposed, based on the existence and dominance of a focal actor, and other actors involved in the process. Six contextual factors that affect the application of the various PBP are identified: (1) type of place distinguishing between places with or without administrative power, (2) initiative referring to the difference between political/administrative, community, mixed, (3) support base for the branding distinguishing between strong political/organizational, strong community, strong identity, (4) brand purpose, i.e., competitiveness, identity, conservation; (5) target group, and (6) type of place brand referring to the difference between sectoral and integrated place brands. Patterns of the contextual factors have been identified that seem to be typical for the application of the different PBP types. The findings provide guidance to rural place managers and communities to apply a PBP that matches their specific context.

Place branding is commonly understood as the application of marketing and commercial ideas, strategies, measurements and logic to the realm of places such as cities, regions and nations. Nevertheless, place branding is also understood as the locus where political activities – imbued with political impact and political effects – appear and affect the soft and hard infrastructures of urban agglomeration and other spatial environments. In this regard, by performing an analysis that helps unpack the multiple characters and impacts of political structures and processes in relation to place branding activities, the present dissertation aims to offer a conceptualization of the political dimension of place branding. By drawing on the critical assessment of the academic literature on place branding and on a series of studies about the branding processes in the region of Romagna and in the Greater Stockholm, the present dissertation further specifies an alternative conceptual framework (i.e. ecological politics) that suggests how place branding should be seen an empirical and theoretical political apparatus that acts, in praxis, based on an emerging, multifaceted and spatio-temporal enfolding of politics. More specifically, the ecological politics of place branding is characterized by four main aspects: the unfolding of a biopolitical ecology around place-branding practices; the ideological appropriation of place-branding processes; the positioning through politicized actions between the interest groups; and finally place-branding as a process of policy-intervention. Finally, on more general level, the present dissertation, by recognizing the political activities and efforts of place branding as crucial elements to be analyzed, makes the case for a more explicit, complex and manifold political analysis of the political dimension of place branding, which allows attention to be given to the impact that branding processes, practices and activities have on cities, regions and nations ; At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Manuscript.

Introduction-- Frank M. Go, Arja Lemmetyinen and Ulla Hakala PART I: PLACE BRANDING: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRINCIPLES 1. Place Branding and Culture: 'The Reciprocal Relationship Between Culture and Place Branding'-- Marinda Scaramanga 2. Cultural Entrepreneurs as Foundations of Place Brands-- Alice Loy and Tom Aageson 3. Managing the Unmanageable: Stakeholder Involvement in Creating and Managing Places and Their Brands'-- Edward Kasabov 4. The Role of Culture in Regional Development Work - Changes and Tensions-- Kari Ilmonen PART II: CHAPTERS ON INDIVIDUAL PLACE CASE STUDIES 5. Case A: Place Branding from the Bottom up: Strengthening Cultural Identity through Small-Scaled Connectivity with Cultural Entrepreneurship-- Philip Speranza 6. Case B: Culture-led Urban Regeneration and Brand Building in Alpine Italian Cities-- Maria Della Lucia and Mariangela Franch 7. Case C: Place Branding and Cultural Entrepreneurship: 'Edinburgh - Scotland's Inspiring Capital and World Festival City'-- Kenneth McMillan Wardrop 8. Case D: The Power of Soft Infrastructure in Influencing Regional Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness-- Cecilia Pasquinelli and Nicola Bellini 9. Case E: Cultural Diplomacy and Entrepreneurship as a Means for Image Restoration: The Case of Israel-- Eli Avraham 10. Case F: The City of Ostrava - From Industrial Image to Industrial Image 2.0-- Jan Suchacek and Pavel Herot PART III: CHAPTERS ON PARTICULAR PLACE BRAND THEMES 11. Coordinating Cooperative Cultural Networks: the Case of Culture Finland-- Arja Lemmetyinen 12. Tracing for One Voice - The 5Cs of Communication in Place Branding-- Ulla Hakala 13. E-governance-based Smart Place Branding: Challenges and Implications for Local Identity and Cultural Entrepreneurship-- Frank M. Go, Maria Della Lucia, Mariapina Trunfio and Angelo Presenza 14. Making Space for Cultural Entrepreneurship-- Stephen Little

Places are facing major challenges at the environmental, financial and economic levels. These crucial issues demand structural changes and emphasise the need for robust strategic thinking and active instruments that shape and frame what a place is and what it aims to become. As traditional planning instruments become markedly less effective, spatial planners are required to develop new instruments that cope more effectively with the challenges they face in an unbalanced, dynamic and complex environment, while at the same time addressing the social, spatial and economic needs of a place. Place branding has been used to foster economic restructuring, social inclusion and cohesion, political engagement and participation, place identification, and the general well-being of citizens. This article aims to contribute to the academic debate by discussing why and how place branding can be used as an instrument in strategic spatial planning to support a structural change in places. This conceptual article emphasises that place branding as a strategic spatial planning instrument can contribute to improvement of economic and social structure of places and reshape responses to contemporary challenges faced by places.

Background Nowadays, not only countries but also cities and regions communicate directly with residents in other countries using public diplomacy. Public diplomacy includes all official efforts to convince targeted sectors of foreign opinion to support or tolerate the strategic objectives of the government of a state, region or city. By branding your place to residents in other countries, you can make your place an attractive place to move to. On the other hand, you can also demolish your place brand reputation among other target groups and stakeholders. Aim This paper aims at discussing the role of public diplomacy in place branding for attracting new residents. We will focus on refugees. Once the refugees have obtained the right to stay in Sweden, they have the right to settle down wherever they want. However, they do not settle down in different parts of Sweden by random, but as a response to municipal public diplomacy communication strategies in branding places. Design We use an exploratory case study design to discuss how the two cities Borlänge and Malmö work with public diplomacy and place branding in attracting refugees to settle down in these cities. Both cities relied on immigrant labour but entered a painful deindustrialisation process in the late 1970s. However, in the 1990s the cities' development took different turns. We develop a conceptual framework based on public diplomacy and place branding. The empirical material is based on policy documents decided by the respective city halls, statistics from Statistics Sweden and previous research. Findings The place branding of Borlänge targets just the residents. For non-residents the brand is weak and for refugees unattractive. No public diplomacy communication is reported in the policy documents from Borlänge. Malmö works actively with place branding and public diplomacy to attract new residents from abroad, and refugees re-settling from other parts of Sweden. The city is seen as a multicultural and superdiverse, a city where natives are a ...

This article examines the relevance of place branding as a political phenomenon in international politics. After setting place branding in a historical and conceptual context, it maps out the connections between branding and international politics by looking at three examples. First, it examines the challenges facing the European Union to strengthen its image as a global player. Second, it analyzes the efforts of the United States to deal with its collapsing image in the aftermath of its failing "war on terror" and military intervention in Iraq. Third, it examines negative place branding by focusing on the Borat movie that upset Kazakhstan in 2006 and the cartoon crisis that erupted in Denmark in September 2005. This article also aims to situate the practice of place branding in a broader analytical context. It argues that place branding is part of a wider spectrum of postmodern power, where soft power and public diplomacy also have their place.

This article examines the relevance of place branding as a political phenomenon in international politics. After setting place branding in a historical and conceptual context, it maps out the connections between branding and international politics by looking at three examples. First, it examines the challenges facing the European Union to strengthen its image as a global player. Second, it analyzes the efforts of the United States to deal with its collapsing image in the aftermath of its failing 'war on terror' and military intervention in Iraq. Third, it examines negative place branding by focusing on the Borat movie that upset Kazakhstan in 2006 and the cartoon crisis that erupted in Denmark in September 2005. This article also aims to situate the practice of place branding in a broader analytical context. It argues that place branding is part of a wider spectrum of postmodern power, where soft power and public diplomacy also have their place. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2008 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Die Integration raumbezogener Identität gilt als Erfolgsfaktor für Place Branding. Dennoch ist der Begriff der raumbezogenen Identität häufig unzureichend konzeptualisiert. Das Ziel dieses Beitrags ist daher, einen theoretisch fundierten Umgang mit raumbezogener Identität in einem anwendungsbezogenen Kontext aufzuzeigen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel des Forschungsvorhabens Regiobranding, in dem landschaftsezogene Identität - als spezifizierte Variante raumbezogener Identität - systematisch erhoben wurde. Ausgangspunkt theoretischer Überlegungen sind sozialkonstruktivistische Landschaftsverständnisse. Darauf aufbauend wird landschaftsbezogene Identität als individuelle und gesellschaftliche Deutung landschaftlicher Eigenheit und Typik sowie daran geknüpfter Raumbindungen verstanden. Im empirischen Teil werden in einer ländlichen Fallstudienregion individuelle Deutungen landschaftsbezogener Identität qualitativ erfasst und fallübergreifend ausgewertet. Dieses Vorgehen macht die
angeeignete identitätsstiftende Landschaft sichtbar, also Referenzpunkte, die wiederholt als raumbezogene Typik bzw. Eigenheit gedeutet und/oder als Komponente individueller Raumbindungen aktiviert werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine hohe Bandbreite verschiedener Referenzpunkte, welche die Interviewpartner vielfältig beschreiben, verbinden und als Bezugspunkte kognitiv-emotionaler Zuwendung nutzen. Durch die fallübergreifende Datenanalyse ließen sich zudem widersprüchliche Deutungsmuster darstellen. Damit belegen die empirischen Befunde, dass landschaftsbezogene Identitäten individuell konstruierte Realitäten darstellen, die im Vergleich weder eindeutig noch widerspruchslos sind. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für die Nutzung landschaftsbezogener Identität in Place Branding-Prozessen herausgearbeitet.

"Urban Events, Place Branding and Promotion explores the phenomenon of place event marketing, examining the ways in which events are used to brand and disseminate information about a place. It provides a novel contribution to the literature, capturing the growing interest in place promotion, and offers in-depth insights on the role of events. With a focus on urban locations, this book defines the scope and concept of place event marketing. It demonstrates that different kinds of events, for leisure and business, can be used to successfully develop, promote, and brand different types of places. Individual chapters written by a variety of leading academics explore how various public and non-governmental institutions that deal with promotion and marketing communications of places can implement event marketing activities, and how such institutions organize, co-organize and sponsor different events. The effects of event marketing activities on urban place promotion and branding are thoroughly explored through a variety of international empirical case studies. This will be of great interest to upper-level students and researchers in Events Marketing and Management, Tourism and the broader field of Urban Geography. The concluding chapter also proposes future research directions"--