Policy

By Chris Gregory FIPM As the Institute of Place Management and Manchester Metropolitan University develop a new Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship in Place Management, I’ve been reflecting on what success might look like for this important next step in the professionalisation of our sector. Having worked in place management for over 25 years - across towns, cities, and business impr ...

The Institute of Place Management was delighted to welcome Dr Viriya Taecharungroj, IPM Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at Mahidol University, Thailand, to Manchester Metropolitan University during his recent visit to the UK for the International Place Branding Association conference. During his visit, Dr Taecharungroj presented his new book, Strategic City Branding: Insi ...

Place managers and leaders often describe the importance of a place’s “feel” - that hard-to-define emotional quality that makes one high street feel lively and welcoming, while another feels flat or uneasy. But how can we capture or communicate that feeling in practice? One idea comes from sensory place research. The Institute of Place Management (IPM) recently supported a smel ...