Selling Places: The City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present

ISBN-10: 0080413846
ISBN-13: 9780080413846
Series: Selling Places
Category: Administration municipale
Pages: 316
Language: English
Published: 1993
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Author: Gerard Kearns

Description

Places, particularly cities, often strive to sell themselves to encourage inward investment. In doing so, the managers of these places seek to manipulate the interwoven cultural and historical attributes of their localities to create attractive images, ambiences and lifestyles. This is a contentious process involving a fierce battle between alternative cultural sensibilities and historical visions.