City Branding Evaluation as a Tool for Sustainable Urban Growth: A Framework and Lessons from the Yangtze River Delta Region

Yang, Tianren; Ye, Minghai; Pei, Pei; Shi, Yongjiang; Pan, Haozhi

doi:10.3390/su11164281

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“…The appearance of such problems in a city requires balanced transformation that refers to, for example, changes in the structure of local industry or innovative infrastructural solutions [31]. With this regard, many local governments try to introduce a place branding concept into their sustainable transformation process, treating it as an essential tool that allows for establishing a good reputation of a given city and maintaining its attractiveness among external stakeholders [31,[34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

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City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Glińska

Rudolf

2019

Sustainability

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City branding is becoming more and more popular, not only as a field of research, but also as a practice of local governments. Municipalities attempt to introduce this concept into their sustainable transformation process, positioning a city among its stakeholders as, for instance, an eco-oriented, innovative, or smart city. An idea that fosters building a strong and consistent city brand is brand personality. The aim of the paper is to diagnose a city’s brand personality dimensions/traits communicated via posts published on official Facebook accounts of cities and to identify differences occurring within this scope between cities of two selected Central and Eastern European countries—Poland and Ukraine. To achieve this aim, the research involved a content analysis of 1700 posts published by 34 municipalities representing regional capital cities of Poland and Ukraine. On the basis of these study results, the authors have supplemented the Aaker (1997) five-dimensional scale of brand personality with the sixth dimension: Prosocial Attitude, which includes cooperative and bureaucratic traits, to better comply with the approach of cities to problems of their inhabitants and their surrounding environment, which is consistent with the idea of sustainability. Furthermore, the fifth trait has been added to characteristics which make up Aaker’s Excitement dimension. Dubbed as patriotic, it refers to the city’s activities related to the local celebration of historical events, indicating national pride and identification with its place of residence. Bureaucratic and patriotic traits were quite frequently observed in posts published on the official Facebook accounts of Ukrainian cities. Moreover, the research proves that in case of Polish cities the dominating brand personality dimensions are Sincerity and Excitement. Ukrainian cities tend to exercise communication based on the Sincerity and Competence dimension.

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City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Glińska

Rudolf

2019

Sustainability

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“…The main contribution of this paper is to incorporate government environmental preference into the analysis of fiscal decentralization and local environmental pollution. Such analysis not only provides empirical evidence from China for research in environmental federalism [ 5 ] of developing countries, but also develops a sustainability-oriented [ 6 ] fiscal and environmental governance. The remaining content of this paper is organized as follows.…”

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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Environmental Pollution in China

Guo

Wen

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Fiscal decentralization is one of the tools for the central government to engage local governments in environment management. However, its effects are inconclusive. This paper aims to examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on environmental pollution and the role of government environmental preference in China’s provinces. The results show that fiscal revenue decentralization exacerbates local environmental pollution more seriously than expenditure decentralization. This negative environmental effect of fiscal decentralization could be moderated by government environmental preference. Based on our findings, it is recommended that China’s local governments should improve environmental preference so that fiscal decentralization can create a win–win situation for the economy and environment. Furthermore, the different effects of fiscal revenue and expenditure decentralization create a necessity for differentiated management of fiscal decentralization by the central and local governments.

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“…In addition, despite ongoing planning efforts to relieve the overcrowded urban core, traffic conditions have continuously worsened, particularly in the city centre (Cervero and Day, 2008). The rapid urbanisation process is expected to bring more migrants to Shanghai from the wider catchment area in the Yangtze River Delta (Yang et al, 2019b). As a result, this case provides a representative example for understanding commuting changes in other urbanising mega-city regions characterised by booming transport demands and increasing congestion.…”

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Understanding commuting patterns and changes: Counterfactual analysis in a planning support framework

Yang

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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In order to contain commuting distance growth and relieve traffic burden in mega-city regions, it is essential to understand journey-to-work patterns and changes in those patterns. This research develops a planning support model that integrates increasingly available mobile phone data and conventional statistics into a theoretical urban economic framework to reveal and explain commuting changes. Base-year calibration and cross-year validation were conducted first to test the model’s predictive ability. Counterfactual simulations were then applied to help local planners and policymakers understand which factors lead to differences in commuting patterns and how different policies influence various categorical zones (i.e. centre, near suburbs, sub-centres and far suburbs). The case study of Shanghai shows that jobs–housing co-location results in shorter commutes and that policymakers should be more cautious when determining workplace locations as they play a more significant role in mitigating excessive commutes and redistributing travel demand. Furthermore, land use and transport developments should be coordinated across spatial scales to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for both the city centre and the suburbs. Coupled with empirical evidence explaining commuting changes over time, the proposed model can deliver timely and situation-cogent messages regarding the success or failure of planned policy initiatives.

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City Branding Evaluation as a Tool for Sustainable Urban Growth: A Framework and Lessons from the Yangtze River Delta Region

Cited by 29 publications

References 48 publications

City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Fiscal Decentralization and Local Environmental Pollution in China

Understanding commuting patterns and changes: Counterfactual analysis in a planning support framework

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