Sexing up the city in the international beauty contest: The performative nature of spatial planning and the fictive spectacle of place branding

Town Planning Review

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 251-274

  Boland, Philip ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

branding; culture; economy; planning; regeneration

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; DATA SET; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL PLANNING; TOWN PLANNING;

ENGLAND; LIVERPOOL [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84878037110     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2013.14     Document Type: Article

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