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.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Mobilising Place Management
Claus Lassen and Lea Holst Laursen
Part 2: Changing Place Management Practices
2. Mobile Encounters and Meeting Places in Motion
Mathilde Dissing Christensen and Lasse Martin Kofoed
3. Hope of Flows: Mobilising an Urban Region
Mikkel Thelle
4. Entangled Networks in Place-specific Tourism Development
Lea Holst Laursen
5. Mobilising for the Diffuse Market-town Hotel
Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Thomas Skou Grindsted
6. The Paradox of a Transit Hub
Ida Gøtzsche Lange
7. Rural Development Through Mobilities Thinking
Gunvor Riber Larsen
8. Small Airports
Claus Lassen
9. The Making of Hub Airports
Krzysztof Janko, Jens Hundevad Bloch and Claus Lassen
Part 3: Epilogue
10. Mobile Place Management: A Future Approach for Place Managers?
Lea Holst Laursen, Claus Lassen, and Ida Gøtzsche Lange
