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Dear Students & Early Careers, 
we would like to thank your support during 2014. It was great to feel your enthusiasm during conferences and social events. After a great year, we wish you all season’s greetings. 

We look forward to see you in 2015 and celebrate the 50 years of the Regional Studies Association

Sincerely, 
Julie Miao Tian, RSA Early Career Rep. 
Eduardo Oliveira, RSA Student Rep. 

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Spain with its strong tourism brand is still reigning as number 1 tourism destination in Europe, followed by European tourism powerhouses Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom
According to Bloom Consulting Country Brand Ranking © 2014 Tourism Edition, this year proves to be similar to the previous one which means that the TOP 5 Destination brands in Europe are Spain, Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom. Spain is still “the one and only” within the Europe region as its powerful reign continues even though the growth is still negatively affected due to the post-crisis period. This year Italy surpassed United Kingdom because of better performance in the social media field by having more followers and likes on different online platforms. Turkey earned the 8th position and made it to the TOP 10. The small alpine countries Austria (6th) and Switzerland (7th) managed to outperform most of the European countries proving that the country’s size is not a determining factor in terms of …

International Regional Science Review January 2015; Vol. 38, No. 1 Articles Problem-driven Research in Regional Science Ann Markusen
Toward Inclusive Growth: Is There Regional Convergence in Social Welfare? Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Vassilis Tselios
Lake Amenities, Environmental Degradation, and Great Lakes Regional Growth Heather M. Stephens and Mark D. Partridge
Public Debt and Economic Geography Federico Trionfetti

Articles Managing the politics of value propositions Hervé Corvellec and Johan Hultman
Non-representational marketing theory Tim Hill, Robin Canniford, and Joeri Mol
Gaining access to agency and structure in industrial marketing theory: A critical pluralist approach John D. Nicholson, Ross Brennan, and Gerald Midgley
The young consumer-citizen: Nationhood and environmentalism in children’s identity narratives Teresa Davis and Julie E. Francis
Re-cognising the interactive space: Marketing for social transformation Terry Nolan and Richard J. Varey
The brand personality of rocks: A critical evaluation of a brand personality scale Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson
Threats to the scientific status of experimental consumer psychology: A Darwinian perspective Edward F. McQuarrie Commentaries Myth and ideology in consumer culture theory James A. Fitchett, Georgios Patsiaouras, and Andrea Davies
Consumer Culture Theory – Neo-liberalism’s ‘useful idiots’? Søren Askegaard

Celebrating the 1st Year of Regional Studies, Regional Science
The first year of RSRS saw …
27 open access articles published, the work of 39authorsThe average paper taking just 14 weeks from submission to publication11 early career researchers mentored to publication17,020 full-text downloads by readers in 113 countriesArticles published by researchers based in: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.15% of downloads by visitors from social media sitesThank you to all who made this such a successful year.
Editors-in-Chief: Alasdair Rae & Alex Singleton
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Oliveira, Eduardo (2015). Book Review - Good Cities, Better Places, Journal Urban Studies, 52(1): 197-200. (Download)Oliveira, Eduardo (2014), The Tourism Potential of Northern Portugal and Its Relevance for a Regional Branding Strategy, Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research Journal, 2(2): 54-78. (Download)Oliveira, Eduardo (2014). Place branding as a strategic spatial planning instrument.Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, doi:10.1057/pb.2014.12. (Download)Oliveira, Eduardo & Panyik, Emese (2014). Content, context and co-creation: Digital challenges in destination branding with references to Portugal as a tourist destination.Journal of Vacation Marketing, doi: 10.1177/1356766714544235. (Download)Oliveira, Eduardo (2014). Book Review - Reframing the ‘creative city’ through tailored and context-sensitive policies,Journal CITY: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 18(4/5):598-602(Download)Oliveira, Eduardo (2014): Book Review - Making Strategies in Spat…

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First published:
http://placesbrands.com/shifting-the-tide-city-branding-in-todays-urban-planning/

Edited by Samantha North

Posted by Eduardo Oliveira on Dec 1, 2014

A recent tweet from Malcolm Allan, director ofPlace Matters, said that place branding should ‘infuse town planning with new energy, insight and purpose’. This inspired me to put together some thoughts about major urban trends and the role place branding can play in boostingurban planning practices. Today’scities have become places ofabundance, underpinned by large, and often uncontrolled, amounts ofprivate capital, speculative development and foreign investment in property.
A frenetic urban-competitiveness brings a sense of vulnerability based on job insecurity,unaffordable housing, lack of sense of belonging, place attachment and a marked increase in loneliness. The existence of these issues calls for new approaches in urban planning and city management. In this post I will briefly outline these dominant urban trends and discu…