Mobilising Place Management

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.

• Part 1: Introduction1. Mobilising Place ManagementPart 2: Changing Place Management Practices2. Mobile Encounters and Meeting Places in Motion 3. Hope of Flows: Mobilising an Urban Region 4. Entangled Networks in Place-specific Tourism Development 5. Mobilising for the Diffuse Market-town Hotel 6. The Paradox of a Transit Hub 7. Rural Development Through Mobilities Thinking 8. Small Airports 9. The Making of Hub Airports Part 3: Epilogue10. Mobile Place Management: A Future Approach for Place Managers?

"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