The Political Economy of City Branding
eBook - ePub

The Political Economy of City Branding

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Political Economy of City Branding

About this book

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption. This competition takes place in an asymmetric field, with cities trying to find the best possible ways of using their natural and created assets, the latter including a naturally evolving reputation or consciously developed competitive identity or brand.

The Political Economy of City Branding discusses this phenomenon from the perspective of numerous post-industrial cities in North America, Europe, East Asia and Australasia. Special attention is given to local economic development policy and industrial profiling, and global city rankings are used to provide empirical evidence for cities' characteristics and positions in the global urban hierarchy. On top of this, social and urban challenges such as creative class struggle are also discussed.

The core message of the book is that cities should apply the tools of city branding in their industrial promotion and specialization, but at the same time take into account the special nature of their urban communities and be open and inclusive in their brand policies in order to ensure optimal results.

This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the areas of local economic development, urban planning, public management, and branding.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781135129897
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Tables
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Challenges of globalization
  13. 3 Global urban hierarchy and asymmetry
  14. 4 Underlying dynamics City attraction hypothesis
  15. 5 Living in a branded world
  16. 6 City branding as a strategic tool
  17. 7 Economic profiles of post-industrial cities
  18. 8 From win-win situation to creative class struggle
  19. 9 New paradigm for urban management
  20. 10 Conclusion
  21. References
  22. Index