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Eventful Cities

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ISBN: 978-0-7506-6987-0
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Eventful Cities

Cultural management and urban revitalisation

By Greg Richards and Robert Palmer

Approx. 320 pages
Copyright 2007
USD 49.95T, Softcover

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Key Features

  • Analyses the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and links these processes to their wider cultural, social and economic context
  • Provides a unique blend of practical and academic analysis, with a selection of major festivals and cities where ‘the event' has had an important element of development strategy
  • Examines the reasons why different stakeholders should collaborate, as well as the reasons why partnerships succeed or fail

    Description

    Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes within broader urban development strategies.
    This volume:

  • Analyses the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and links these processes to their wider cultural, social and economic context
  • Provides a unique blend of practical and academic analysis, with a selection of major   events and   festivals in cities where ‘eventfulness’ has been an important element of development strategy
  • Examines the reasons why different stakeholders should collaborate, as well as the reasons why cities succeed or fail to develop events and become eventful
    Eventful Cities: cultural management and urban revitalisation evaluates theoretical perspectives and links theory and practice through case studies of cities and events across the world.  Critical success factors are identified which can help to guide cities and regions to develop event strategies.  This book is essential reading for any undergraduate or graduate student and all practitioners and policy-makers involved in event management, cultural management, arts administration, urban studies, cultural studies and tourism.

    N.B. Cover image credit: ";Zinneke Parade 2006 picture by Bram Goots";

     


    Readership

    Levels 2 & 3: undergrad/postgrad students in event management; cultural management; arts administration; urban studies; cultural studies & tourism/ Practitioners involved in the organisation and management of events: local authority officers; festival managers; development agencies; tourist boards/bodies responsible for cultural and economic regeneration strategies and projects.

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    Author Information

    By Greg Richards, Partner, Tourism Research and Marketing, Spain; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Leisure, Tourism and Society, University of the West of England, UK and Robert Palmer, Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

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