Testimonials

"Journal of Town and City Management can be instrumental to practitioners in commissioning research and publishing robust evidence from a wide variety of projects, worldwide, to guide them in finding the right solution to different problems. A reliable reference source, which has posed sufficiently searching and objective questions to the success or otherwise of projects (failed projects can be just as informative as the successful ones) will be genuinely valuable as a tool to support and inform decision making and will contribute to the body of evidence already available to town centre managers worldwide.”
Georgia Smith
Head, VisitWorcester, Tourism and City Centre Management, UK

"Journal of Town and City Management will not only identify vital issues affecting cities throughout the world, but also provide solutions to those issues. The Journal can become a vital administrative tool for both present and future managers throughout the world.”
Jane Bais-DiSessa
City Manager, Berkley, Michigan, USA

"Journal of Town and City Management will play an important role in providing individuals in town and city management knowledge of good practice and case studies of successful town centre management models. It will also provide strategic input and spur debate with regards to the need for incorporating town and city centre management in the early phases of the planning of new areas and the regeneration of older ones. The Journal will also contribute to the progressive rise in confidence among senior decision makers with regards to the need for successful public-private partnership working to deliver better integrated town and city management into the 21st century.”
Hans C Löwlund
Chairman, Svensk Handel, Sweden

"Journal of Town and City Management can be an effective vehicle to share best practices world-wide and an opportunity for academics, consultants and city management professionals to learn from the experience, vision and reflections of colleagues throughout the world.”
Charles Gauthier
Executive Director, Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, Canada

"I see five key areas where Journal of Town and City Management will be able to make a positive contribution, namely:

• publishing "cutting edge” articles that will increase efficiencies in a period of hard times;
• comparing approaches taken in different nations concerning similar issues (e.g. city centre revitalisation);
• developing "special topic” issues that focus on critical issues (i.e. city marketing and promotion, urban sprawl, city zoning);
• providing regular update sections in the form of book reviews, conference reports and international policy updates; and
• including a suitable mix of articles drawing from applied research, visionary thinking and good practice in city management that stimulate debate among academics, practitioners and policy-makers”

Zenia Kotval
Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University, USA