City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

Abstract

Introduction: Sliced Cities: Tara Brabazon.- Section One - Disconnection: 1: Glasgow the brand: Whose story is it anyway?: Mhairi Lennon.- 2: My state had a mining boom and all I got was this lousy train-line: Leanne McRae.- 3: Swan Valley Sideways: Economic development through taste and tourism in Western Australia: Tara Brabazon.- 4: The Atrium: a convergence of education, leisure and consumption: Danny Hagan.- 5: Culture of car parks or car parking cultures?: Zuzana Blazeckova.- 6: Sticky Brighton: Dog Excrement in Brighton and Hove public areas: Ana Kvalheim.- 7: Hacking the City: Disability and access in cities made of software: David Cake and Mike Kent.- 8: Security and the City: The CHOGM Lockdown: Leanne McRae.- 9: Luanda: Running on the wrong track towards global acceptance: Boniswa Vaz Contreires.- Fado: Faracy Grouse.- Section Two - Intervention: 10: When Bohemia becomes a business: City Lights, Columbus Avenue and the future of San Francisco: Tara Brabazon.- 11: Working the crowds: street performances in public spaces: Andrew Carlin.- 12: Third tier rave towns: The orbit in Morley: Nick Dunn.- 13: Beats by the Bay: Sixties San Francisco music and the development of a Contemporary Tourism Industry: Nadine Caouette.- 14: Brighton Sound? Cities, music and distinctiveness: Abigail Edwards.- 15: Makkah Al-Mukaaramah: A Second Tier City for Religious Tourism: Saeed Al Amoudy.- 16: Unseen Napa: QR codes as virtual portals: Mick Winter.- 17: Osaka in and out of the Nation: Neoliberal Spatial Gestures for the Globally Competitive City-Region: Joel Matthews.- 18: Brand Wellington: When city imaging is GLAM'ed: Tara Brabazon.- Conclusion: Imaging injustice: Tara Brabazon.