“What’s in a name?”: Imagining Arroios
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Lisbon’s Arroios was dubbed “the world’s coolest neighborhood” by Time Out. Marco Allegra considers the power of naming and asks what's at stake in such rankings of “coolness.”
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A City’s Lost Identity: An Analysis of The Golden State Warriors’ Relocation from Oakland to San Francisco
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Abigail Rhim explores the departure of the Golden State Warriors from Oakland to San Francisco, arguing that media discourses circulated by the team, fans, and residents of both cities following the move demonstrate the significance of the team to Oakland’s sense of place-based identity.
The Lingering Presence of Richard Florida in Gothenburg’s Future Vision
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In the final post of the Roundtable, Helena Holgersson and Erik Florin Persson address the role of Richard Florida's ideas in Gothenburg's self-presentation and self-conception.
TV Happens Here: Negotiating Public Perceptions of Spatial Capital
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Myles McNutt discusses the various ways in which cities do and do not transform their status as popular shooting locations into spatial capital
The Urban Light Art Festival as Branding and Commons
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In this Deep Dive, Annie Dell'Aria looks to Cincinnati's recent Blink light festival to explore how such illuminations are used to define cities and the urban experience for residents
Living With the Media Industry City
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In this introduction to the second round, Lawrence Webb asks the contributors to consider media industries and the cities they generate from the perspective of those cities' citizens and users
A Deceptive Return to Welfare State Rhetoric in the Marketing Initiatives of Gothenburg
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Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson explore Gothenberg's new promotional films, and trace their attempted resuscitation of older notions of community and government
Media Industries and City Branding: A Roundtable
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In the first-round introduction to our new Roundtable, Lawrence Webb uses the example of Amazon HQ2 to ask how urban corporate and residential relocation campaigns illuminate issues of citizenship and city branding, and poses questions to our participants