Sexing up the city in the international beauty contest: the performative nature of spatial planning and the fictive spectacle of place branding.
This paper responds to recent calls for more academic research and critical discussion on the relationship between spatial planning and city branding. Through the lens of Liverpool, the article analyses how key planning projects have delivered major transformations in the city's built environment an...
| Publicado en: | TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 251 - 275 |
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| Formato: | Case Study |
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Liverpool University Press / Journals
Mar2013
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