Mobilising Place Management

Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management. It takes a point of departure in the mobilities turn and relational place thinking while exploring the relationship between place and mobility. In a world of increasing mobility and global competition between nations, cities and urban regions, the managing of places seems more relevant than ever before. By examining various examples of place and mobilities that range from the airport, rural village, tourist site, port-city to the city region, this book argues that the management of places can be informed and enhanced by installing a greater awareness and understanding of mobility. This insight could potentially improve the ability of current place management to translate a relational and mobilities-orientated thinking into concrete actions, instructions, interventions, designs, plans, policies and management control systems. The book will be essential reading for researchers, practitioners and students in the field of place management and across urban studies, planning, design, geography, sociology, tourism, transport and history.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Mobilising Place Management Claus Lassen and Lea Holst Laursen Part 2: Changing Place Management Practices 2. Mobile Encounters and Meeting Places in Motion Mathilde Dissing Christensen and Lasse Martin Kofoed 3. Hope of Flows: Mobilising an Urban Region Mikkel Thelle 4. Entangled Networks in Place-specific Tourism Development Lea Holst Laursen 5. Mobilising for the Diffuse Market-town Hotel Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Thomas Skou Grindsted 6. The Paradox of a Transit Hub Ida Gøtzsche Lange 7. Rural Development Through Mobilities Thinking Gunvor Riber Larsen 8. Small Airports Claus Lassen 9. The Making of Hub Airports Krzysztof Janko, Jens Hundevad Bloch and Claus Lassen Part 3: Epilogue 10. Mobile Place Management: A Future Approach for Place Managers? Lea Holst Laursen, Claus Lassen, and Ida Gøtzsche Lange

Claus Lassen is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Design, and Media Technology and co-founder and director of the interdisciplinary C-MUS Centre of Mobility and Urban Studies at Aalborg University. His research focuses on changing social relations in the light of international air travel. Lea Holst Laursen is Associated Professor; Architecture and Urban Design section-head, Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University and board member of the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS). Her research concerns urban and landscape transformation, place-making and site-specific development potentials.