Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the
changes in China's planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and …

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.
Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions …

The present paper argues for more conceptually-laden research on the constitution of place
branding as a hybrid form of urban policy. By both drawing from empirical examples and …

Among known studies of city branding by Chinese megacities to realise urban
transformation, there is no explorative study of how smaller Chinese cities engage in city …

City branding in a multi-level governance context: comparing branding performance across
five institutional models for urban development in Saudi Arabia | Emerald Insight Books and …

In the urban development policy in China, city brands play an important role in setting
targets for Chinese cities. These economic city brands, however, are not produced in an …

This article analyses whether involving various stakeholder groups in place marketing has
effects on the content of place brands, and on how place marketing influences other policy …

This chapter aims to understand China's specific development regime through reviewing the
origin of market-oriented reform and its pathway, through which a new space of …

Polycentricity is promoted as an ideal urban form to achieve sustainable and balanced
development, and it has been widely adopted by planners in China, especially in large …

Purpose This study aims to propose resident-based brand equity models on green, creative
and smart development themes through a multi-sample telephone survey on Hong Kong …