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
Biography
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.
"This is a timely book. The importance of mobility to place management has never been so apparent. The places we live, work, use for recreation and visit as tourists are all fundamentally defined by imaginations, expectations, hopes and the materialities of mobility. This book creatively covers all of these concerns and does so in a way that eloquently considers their intersections, whether in the airport, urban meeting place or rural setting. Anyone interested in mobilities, places and their management will appreciate the way this book deals with contemporary complexities whilst offering a range of insights and lessons from the Danish context."
Prof James Faulconbridge, Lancaster University, UK
"The issue of mobility is often, and paradoxically, an unthought of in the design and management of public spaces. This book tackles this essential issue in a very in-depth way. It is essential for urban planning practitioners and researchers."
Vincent Kaufmann, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
