1st Edition
Small Cities with Big Dreams Creative Placemaking and Branding Strategies
Chapter 1 Small cities, big challenges Chapter 2 Creating opportunities with limited resources Chapter 3 Placemaking Process: Putting things on the move Chapter 4 The Art of collaboration: Finding external partners and keeping them on board Chapter 5 Governance: The art of getting things done Chapter 6 Marketing and branding the small city Chapter 7 Impacts and effects: Reaping the rewards and counting the costs Chapter 8 Tempo: Good placemaking takes time Chapter 9 Lessons for other places? Critical success factors in the ‘s-Hertogenbosch story
Biography
Greg Richards is Professor of Placemaking and Events at Breda University and Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He has worked with numerous national governments, national tourism organizations, cities and regions on a wide range of placemaking projects.
Lian Duif was responsible for directing the Bosch500 programme in ‘s-Hertogenbosch from 2010 to 2016. She has a professional background in the field of tourism, cultural heritage and city marketing. Lian is involved in the marketing and development of tourism and cultural programmes with organizations such as the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions and VisitBrabant.
"Hieronymus Bosch meets Monty Don. Small Cities with Big Dreams persuasively demonstrates how communities working in concert can successfully put themselves on the map by translating a good story into a powerful local brand. Required reading for undergraduates in courses on creative place-making and urban cultural policies." -John Hannigan, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
