ABSTRACT

This chapter begins by briefly examining the discipline of place management, particularly the place making element and investigates the discipline's ability to cope with a world of increasing movements and flows. It argues that places are 'not fixed, given or unchanging', but rather are dynamic, relational and do not necessarily mean staying in one location through an examination of the 'mobilities turn' literature. The chapter unfolds the content and characteristics of a relational and mobilities-orientated approach to place management. Although, a few research contributions and practice examples within the field of place management to some degree have adopted a mobility understanding in their 'place work', author argue that the field has overlooked or neglected such a perspective.