ABSTRACT

This book explores the dynamics of place, location and territories from the perspective of an experience-based economy. It offers a valuable contribution to this new approach and the planning and management challenges it faces.

This book emphasises three key avenues to understanding the experience economy. First, the book reconsiders innovation processes and the relationship between the consumption and production of experience value. Second, it considers emerging forms of governance related to experience-based development in businesses and cities. Third, it examines the role of place as a value, resource and outcome of experiential innovation and planning.

This book will be of interested to researchers concerned with urban and regional development.

part 1|17 pages

Introduction

part 2|50 pages

Theoretical developments and methodology challenges

chapter 4|17 pages

Municipalities as experiential stagers in the new economy

Emerging practices in Frederikshavn, North Denmark

part 3|48 pages

Relations in the experience economy

chapter 5|17 pages

Selling the stage

Exploring the spatial and temporal dimensions of interactive cultural experiences

chapter 6|15 pages

Qualifying aesthetic values in the experience economy

The role of independent fashion boutiques in curating slow fashion

chapter 7|14 pages

The ‘Airbnb experience' and the experience economy

The spatial, relational and experiential in-betweenness of Airbnb

part 4|74 pages

Construction of stages and places in the experience economy

chapter 9|19 pages

Val d'Europe

An experience economy landscape tamed by affect

chapter 10|16 pages

Bollywood-in-the-Alps

Popular culture place-making in tourism

part 5|57 pages

Governance in the experience economy

chapter 12|20 pages

Pursuing happiness in planning?

The experience economy as planning approach

chapter 13|16 pages

Engagements in place

Bricolage networking in tourism and the experience economy