Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities, 1850-2000Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from Northern America, Britain and continental Europe. The processes involved and the promotional imagery employed are meticulously presented and richly illustrated. |
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Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000 Stephen Ward Limited preview - 2005 |
Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000 Stephen Ward Limited preview - 2005 |
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active ACVB agencies American approach areas Atlanta Atlantic City attract became began Birmingham Blackpool Bodleian Library boosterism Boston Bridlington Brighton Britain building campaign Canada central centres certainly Chamber of Commerce Chicago city marketing companies competition Council cultural economic Edgware efforts especially example factories Garden Glasgow Glasgow's Miles Better GLRO Gross growing growth holiday ICRR Illinois Central Railroad important increasingly industrial cities industrial promotion industrial towns interwar investment Jackson land London London Docklands London Transport Museum major Manchester manufacturing ment Metro-land Metropolitan Railway Miles Better municipal North America numbers Ontario Oshawa Park particularly pattern place marketing place selling policies post-industrial city poster powers promotional imagery publicity RAIL railroads regional residential resort advertising role seaside resorts settlement Skegness slogan social South Southern street car suburban development suburbia suburbs theme tion tourist traditional traffic typical urban visitors Western Railway