1st Edition

Landscape and Branding The promotion and production of place

By Nicole Porter Copyright 2016
254 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age. Landscape - incorporating tangible physical space as well as intangible concepts, narratives, images, and experiences of place - is constructed by a number of creative industries. This book tests the hypothesis that place branding, a powerful... Read more

Preamble  1. Landscape discourse and the intangible value of landscape-as-brand  Interlude - Striding toward branded landscape identities: national park promotion and production worldwide  2. Form follows focus group: Understanding place branding  Interlude - Walking tracks  3. ‘Repositioning’ Mountains: The Brand Blue Mountains framework  Interlude – Walkabout  4. Calculated aesthetics: promoting the landscape on surfaces and screens  Interlude - ‘Morning walks through silvered leaves in whispering groves…’  5. The public realm: place branding and place making  6. Private landscape attractions as hyperreal promotional objects  7. Mass-mediating the landscape: surfaces, screens and sites at Echo Point Lookout  Interlude – Amble  8. Beyond branding?

Biography

Nicole Porter received her PhD (landscape) and MArch from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has worked in academia, private practice and the public sector, merging diverse interests in urban design, landscape, architecture, art and environment. Nicole is currently a lecturer in architecture and landscape at the University of Nottingham, UK.