Journal of Place Management and Development: First issue of 2024 out now
The Journal of Place Management and Development starts its 17th year with a standard issue that consists of seven articles.
In the first article, IPM research associate Alessandro Graciotti, along with Morven McEachern, explore the debated and ambiguous concept of food ‘localness’, taking shape in the form of rural space in their article titled “Rural space and the local food landscape: consumers’ construction of food localness through the politics of belonging”.
The second article by Chung Shing Chan and Wan Yan Tsun, “Unleashing the potential of local brand equity of Hong Kong as a green–creative–smart city”, highlights resident-based perceptions of green, smart and creative cities based on a survey in Hong Kong.
The third article by IPM Senior Fellow Viriya Taecharungroj and Ioana Stoica, “Assessing place experiences in Luton and Darlington on Twitter with topic modelling and AI-generated lexicons”, is a novel study on eight dimensions of place experiences that are explored using AI-generated lexicons, and is the first JPMD article that utilises Generative AI for place management research.
Next on, Lisa Källström and Per Siljekint in their paper “Place branding in the eyes of the place stakeholders – paradoxes in the perceptions of the meaning and scope of place branding”, explore place stakeholders’ involvement in participatory place branding initiatives and their perceptions of the meaning and scope of place branding, based on a participatory action research study of two place branding projects in Östra Göinge and Kristianstad in Sweden.
The fifth article by Sabrina Sgambati and Luís Carvalho, titled “Benchmarking urban competitiveness for economic recovery: an application to Porto and Lisbon”, aims to investigate the competitive potential of different classes of municipalities within larger metropolitan areas by designing a new Index of Urban Competitiveness that is influenced by “dual transition” (green and digital) and socio-economic measures.
In “Development of a cross-border regional brand management model: an analysis of its applicability in the Brazil–Argentina and Italy–Austria bordering localities”, Caroline Krüger and colleagues develop a cross-border regional brand management model with the purpose to enhance cooperation for developing such localities, bringing practical contributions to the management and creation of cross-border regional brands.
Finally, in “Developing green urban mobility policies for sustainable public transportation in local communities: a Norwegian perspective”, Bokolo Anthony Jnr. discusses the concept of green urban mobility from a Norwegian context, using a systematic literature review that investigates the role of data for green urban mobility policies toward sustainable public transportation in local communities, and insights that can support decision-makers and stakeholders on how sustainable public transportation can be achieved in local communities.
Link to the issue: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1753-8335/vol/17/iss/1
