Place Marketing 1 - distinguished
O asks for souvenirs in a tourist office. The staff responded that it no longer sells 'typical souvenirs'.
They show a booth with locally produced ceramics and locally manufactured medical devices.
Place Marketing 2 - enlargement
The city P has submitted an application to be representative of the culture over five years in a larger geographical and political entity in which they belongs to. M reads the official application when she is within the requesting city limits. The application focuses mainly on creating affinities in relation to the larger geographical and political belongings. To create this representative of the culture would commit the city to all residents in finding their independence through various activities in the the geographical area covered by the application.
On page 29, she realizes that the insects are not included in the application. M trying to talk to a fly crawling on the bench where she sits, but get no response. M see some people going around at the education center not far from the bench and feel observed. Maybe some think that she tries to find her independence by sitting and reading on this particular bench? M no longer want to remain in the city.
Then she, after an hours journey is back home she realizes that she did not have traveled from the geographical area covered by the application. On page 30, she reads that the application is not only include the city of P, but a larger area which includes over one million inhabitants. The area suddenly no longer defined as urban and rural areas, but is referred to as an urban continuum.
In January 2009 Annelie Nilsson
