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City Imaging is an emerging international policy movement. Yet at its best, this initiative extends beyond ‘top down’ branding and remains engaged with social justice and urban regeneration. This book engages with the global city imaging literature, with attention global, second tier and third tier cities. The examples are international, probing the limits of transferability of city policy modelling.
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It is important that this law and order crisis not be nostalgic. The power of English’s (2011) research is that he shows the racism, discrimination and brutality of New York from 1963 until 1973. But he also recognizes that, “the past is not past: a city’s identity is composed not just of events in the present moment but also of all that came before,” p. xxi.
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Charm City Cakes, http://www.charmcitycakes.com/
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A fine study of this relationship is John Friedmann’s, “Globalization and the emerging culture of planning,” 2005, http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/faculty\%20profiles/friedmann-paper2a.pdf
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One answer to this question is provided by Jared Diamond in The New North: the world in 2050, (London: Profile, 2011). He is drawn to the region at 45 degrees north latitude and higher. This supra-national region includes Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. He argues that, “the New North is thus well positioned for the coming century even as its unique ecosystem is threatened by the linked pressures of hydrocarbon development and amplified climate change,” p. 254.
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L. Sandercock, “The Death of radical planning: radical praxis for a postmodern age,” in Miles, Hall, Borden (eds.), op. cit., p. 424.
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G. Simmel, “The metropolis and mental life,” ibid., pp. 12–19.
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C.P. Lee provided an example of this attribute: “in musical terms, Manchester isn’t unique, but it is certainly special,” Shake rattle and rain: Popular music making in Manchester 1955–1995, (Devon: Hardinge Simpole Publishing, 2002), p. 1.
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Haslam, op. cit., p. xxvii.
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Bill Baker realized that, “recommending the destination marketing practices of Las Vegas, New York City, and San Francisco to small cities is hardly appropriate. We have specifically designed this book for those ambitious communities that recognize that they must adopt the principles of a branded approach, despite having a modest budget,” Baker (2007).
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Siegel and Waxman, op. cit.
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L. Mumford, “What is a city,” from Miles, Hall, Borden, op. cit., p. 28.
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The relationship between this book and the cultural studies ‘project’ is complex. Some of the scholars in this collection were trained in the paradigm. Others work in media, communication and internet studies. However the duality of this book is important. It operates in the space between the marketing of place and a recognition of the injustices within a place. Therefore, it logs Lawrence Grossberg’s warning in Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010): “too much of the work that takes place under the sign of cultural studies has simply become too lazy; lazy because it assumes its objects of study and the politics that follow from them, and lazy because it assumes its methods and theories,” p. 2. The chapters that make up this collection do not make assumptions about cultural or economic value, or the international transferability of approaches. Instead a diversity of approaches and methods are deployed.
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S. Fainstein, “Justice, politics and the creation of urban space,” in Miles, Hall, Borden, ibid., p. 149.
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Brabazon, T. (2014). Introduction: Sliced Cities. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay. GeoJournal Library, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9_1
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