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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...

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Published in:TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 251 - 275
Main Author: Boland, Philip
Format: Case Study
Published: Liverpool University Press / Journals Mar2013
Subjects:
Liverpool (England)
Liverpool One (Company)
Built environment
Polarization (Social sciences)
Place marketing
Cultural landscapes
Liverpool (England). City Council
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