Full Description
Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management. It takes a point of departure in the mobilities turn and relational place thinking while exploring the relationship between place and mobility.
In a world of increasing mobility and global competition between nations, cities and urban regions, the managing of places seems more relevant than ever before. By examining various examples of place and mobilities that range from the airport, rural village, tourist site, port-city to the city region, this book argues that the management of places can be informed and enhanced by installing a greater awareness and understanding of mobility.
This insight could potentially improve the ability of current place management to translate a relational and mobilities-orientated thinking into concrete actions, instructions, interventions, designs, plans, policies and management control systems. The book will be essential reading for researchers, practitioners and students in the field of place management and across urban studies, planning, design, geography, sociology, tourism, transport and history.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Mobilising Place Management
Part 2: Changing Place Management Practices
2. Mobile Encounters and Meeting Places in Motion
3. Hope of Flows: Mobilising an Urban Region
4. Entangled Networks in Place-specific Tourism Development
5. Mobilising for the Diffuse Market-town Hotel
6. The Paradox of a Transit Hub
7. Rural Development Through Mobilities Thinking
8. Small Airports
9. The Making of Hub Airports
Part 3: Epilogue
10. Mobile Place Management: A Future Approach for Place Managers?
