Culture Stories:Understanding Cultural urban Branding

Jensen, Ole B.

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“…The local stories can tell planners what is meaningful about the place (Hillier & Van Wezemael, 2012, pp. 327-328;Jensen, 2007;Soja, 2003). Therefore, Childs (2008, p. 184) suggests that "urban designers should create anthologies of neighborhoods' stories to help inform projects, and otherwise serve as curator and advocate for the vitality of the narrative landscape".…”

Section: Character Of the Place And Place Attachmentmentioning

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A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

Wallin

Leino

Jokinen

et al. 2018

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Urban strategies, representing stories of possible futures, often intervene in already established local communities and therefore call for a considerate urban intervention. This article utilises the ideas of Henri Lefebvre's socially produced space and of literature on stories involved in planning. Our empirical example tells a story of urban densification aspirations for an inner-city neighbourhood in Tampere, Finland. By combining the interviews of local people and planners with policy documents, we argue that planners' stories pay too little attention to the place and to local stories. Planners' abstract visions of the future and local stories building on lived experiences both draw meanings from the same place but have very different intentions. In our case, the consultation of the project started out wrong because the planners neglected a neighbourhood thick in symbolic meanings and the local stories' power in resistance. By understanding the place as polyphonic in its foundation, planners could learn about the symbolic elements and reasons for people's place attachment, and thus end up re-writing the place together. Urban interventions such as urban densification should connect to the place as part of its polyphonic historical continuum and acknowledge the residents' place attachments.

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Section: Character Of the Place And Place Attachmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

Wallin

Leino

Jokinen

et al. 2018

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“…Jensen, 2007;Mayes, 2008;Pike, 2011;Colomb 2011a;Giovanardi, 2011;Kalandides, 2011;Scaramanga, 2012;Ashworth and Kavaratzis, 2014).…”

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Hijacking culture: the disconnection between place culture and place brands

Kavaratzis

Ashworth

2015

Town Planning Review

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This article argues that the dominant understanding of culture within place branding is inadequate and leads to disconnection between local culture and the place brand. The article discusses significant tensions arising from an evident oversimplification of the relationship between place brands and culture. This relationship is reconstructed through a re-appreciation of its complexity and reciprocity. The article provides a refined appreciation of the role of place brands in the production of culture as well as of the cultural nature of place brands and explores the implications of such thinking. Synergies are found in clarifying the formation and function of place brands as cultural phenomena, and, particularly, in understanding the link that culture provides between locals, their place and its brand. The simultaneous consideration of culture in, for and of the place and the related analytical, strategic and participatory aspects of place branding are highlighted as resolutions to the evident tensions.

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“…introdução Se muitos dos autores dos primeiros estudos sobre a cidade criativa se debruçaram principalmente sobre os casos de requalificação física (Bianchini e Parkinson, 1993) e o papel desempenhado pelos eventos e instituições culturais mais emblemáticos (Jensen, 2007;García, 2005), em tempos mais recentes a atenção voltou -se para a importância das infraestruturas imateriais no desenvolvimento das indústrias e dos clusters, ou polos, criativos (Comunian, 2011). Comunian (ibidem) traça a evolução do conceito de cidade criativa, desde o papel desempenhado por iniciativas como a Capital Europeia da Cultura até à nova interpretação de Richard Florida (2002), com a sua proposta de cidade da classe criativa.…”

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Uma cidade criativa de tipo relacional: Para uma cartografia das ligações em rede entre os setores público, privado e sem fins lucrativos nas indústrias criativas

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Culture Stories:Understanding Cultural urban Branding

Cited by 205 publications

References 22 publications

A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification

Hijacking culture: the disconnection between place culture and place brands

Uma cidade criativa de tipo relacional: Para uma cartografia das ligações em rede entre os setores público, privado e sem fins lucrativos nas indústrias criativas

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