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Urban design and local economic development
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Birmingham's urban landscape has been re-imaged in an attempt to attract investment and act as a catalyst for economic rejuvenation, with the new urban landscape playing a crucial role in the transformation of the city from an industrial to a de-industrialized, service-based urban economy as mentioned in this paper.About:
This article is published in Cities.The article was published on 1995-08-01. It has received 63 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban planning & Urban density.read more
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The entrepreneurial city: new urban politics, new urban geographies?:
Tim Hall,Phil Hubbard +1 more
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Resisting the Entrepreneurial City: Street Vendors' Struggle in Mexico City's Historic Center
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that despite constraints placed upon different groups of affected citizens, excluded groups develop survival strategies that enable them to maintain a livelihood and in some cases empower them to thrive.
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Urban Design and City Regeneration: Social Representations of Entrepreneurial Landscapes
TL;DR: A transition from managerial to entrepreneurial forms of governance is discussed in this paper, where the authors demonstrate the existence of a transition between managerial and entrepreneurial forms in urban political change, typified by the sp...
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Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging landscapes in the post-industrial city
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine landscape transformations in the post-industrial city and attempt to portray, classify and understand the emerging landscapes in terms of land use patterns, urban morphology and density.
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“Glocalising” urban landscapes: Athens and the 2004 olympics
Elias Beriatos,Aspa Gospodini +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and understand how particular aspects of urban morphology, such as built heritage and innovative design of space, have become the competitive edge in terms of landscape.
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Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present.
Chris Philo,Gerry Kearns +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of the regional entrepreneur in the regeneration of Britain's regions (M. Lowe, N. Smith, M. Crilley, and R. Woodward).
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Re)Reading the Landscape
James S. Duncan,N Duncan +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the concepts of textuality, intertextuality, and reader reception are applied to the analysis of landscapes, and it is suggested that landscapes are read in much the same way as literary texts.
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Place promotion: the use of publicity and marketing to sell towns and regions.
John R. Gold,Stephen V. Ward +1 more
TL;DR: Locating the message - place promotion as image communication, John R. Gold marketing and place promotion, Gregory J. Ashworth and Henk Voogd time and place - key themes in place promotion in the USA, Canada and Britain since 1870 as discussed by the authors.
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Property-Led Urban Regeneration: Panacea or Placebo?:
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination is made of five ways in which property could contribute to urban economic regeneration: through the direct employment effects of construction-related activity; by accommodating the expansion of indigenous firms; by attracting inward investment; by revitalizing run-down neighbourhoods; and by initiating area-wide economic restructuring.
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The Environment as a Social Symbol: Within a Theory of Environmental Action and Perception
TL;DR: In this paper, a communications model of environmental action and perception is developed and elaborated, with particular attention to their emphasis on the communication of self-identity and status, both to self and others.