Putting Rutherford County on the map: An examination of place marketing for local economic development
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Ownbey, Ashley
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography
- Abstract
- Places are produced and constructed. They do not simply exist; instead, they are dynamically “made” across time and space. Places are defined by the features of their physical geographies, the characteristics of human activity, and the intersection of these two spheres. As places are constructed within a natural and social sense, they are tangled into a network of meanings and values. In order to better understand the process of “making” a place, this thesis examines how one place in North Carolina – Rutherford County – is being produced and marketed through strategies of local economic development.
- Date of publication
- spring 2014
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Lentz, Christian
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 75
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