ResumenEn esta investigación se analiza el marketing de ciudades en el marco de las marcas territoriales o place branding. Se estudia el concepto de la identidad como referencia de partida a partir del cual desarrollar una estrategia de comercialización urbana, la cual se concibe dentro de un enfoque más amplio de dirección estratégica, y que engloba la transformación física con el urbanismo, las infraestructuras y los aspectos sociales. Este proceso estratégi-co finaliza con la creación de una comunicación urbana a través de elementos como lemas y logotipos. Se estudia la evolución general del énfasis en los aspectos urbanos clave, desde las infraestructuras y los aspectos industriales a los valores y la creatividad. Asimismo, también se exploran los aspectos derivados de las simbologías urbanas, la formación de redes de ciudades temáticas y redes de notoriedad cultural.
Palabras clave: Marketing de ciudades y marketing territorial −place branding−, identidad, competencia y cooperación urbana, redes entre ciudades, redes culturales.
AbstractThis paper analyse the emerging concepts of city marketing and place branding. The concept of identity is studied as a starting reference from which to develop an urban marketing strategy, which is conceived within a context broader strategic management approach, and encompasses a physical regeneration or urbanization transformation, and infrastructure and social aspects. This strategic process ends with creating an urban communication through
This chapter applies the method of collage to the analysis of the image of Leon, a city in the inland region of Castilla y Leon, Spain. Collage is a projective technique that can be described as 'a method in which participants are asked to represent a topic or phenomenon visually by composing and gluing together a collage of images, drawings and texts on a piece of cardboard or paper'. As a projection technique, collage allows responses to be obtained which individuals might be unwilling or unable to provide if they knew the purpose of the study. Moreover, it is very well suited to describing motivations, beliefs and attitudes operating at a subconscious level.
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