TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 4, Issue 2 (May 2008)

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Editorial

Editorial

Simon Anholt Managing Editor

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 97-101; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.9

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Papers

Trying to be attractive: Image building and identity formation in small industrial municipalities in Sweden

Susanna Heldt Cassel

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 102-114; doi:10.1057/palgrave.pb.6000086

City brand management (CBM): The case of Kazakhstan

Hugo Gaggiotti, Patrick Low Kim Cheng and Olga Yunak

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 115-123; doi:10.1057/palgrave.pb.6000081

A place in the sun: The politics of place, identity and branding

Robyn Mayes

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 124-135; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.1

Place branding in rural Japan: Cultural commodities as local brands

Anthony S Rausch

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 136-146; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.2

Soft power: Power of attraction or confusion?

Ying Fan

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 147-158; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.4

Brand Borat? Americans' reaction to a Kazakhstani place branding campaign

Jami Fullerton, Alice Kendrick and Courtney Wallis

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 159-168; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.6

City design management as a local competitiveness factor

Vesa Harmaakorpi, Kaarina Kari and Satu Parjanen

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 169-181; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.7

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Students' Corner

Domestic society's (often-neglected) role in nation branding

Anoush Rima Tatevossian

Place Brand Public Dipl 4: 182-190; doi:10.1057/pb.2008.8