Monthly Archives: October 2011

UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network |Part 1| Edinburgh City of Literature

We would like to introduce this first article in a new series of articles about UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network to appear here on the Place Management and Branding blog. The Network aims at developing international cooperation among cities and encouraging … Continue reading

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BiblioRed: Books and Urban Development in Bogotá, Colombia

by Ares Kalandides The first time I visited the public library Virgilio Barco was in 2008. At the time, I knew little about Bogotá and nothing about Colombian architects. What surprised me was not only the architecture, an open building … Continue reading

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Second Call for Papers | Mediterranean Tourism Conference in Antalya April 2012

(Subscribe to the blog to receive regular updates and related news ) in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Akdeniz University Antalya) are happy to announce the Second Call for Papers for the Conference … Continue reading

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Seminar Update: Place Branding for Nicosia 1st and 2nd November 2011

The Reconstruction & Resettlement Council would like to announce the details of the  Seminar: Place Branding for Nicosia to be held the 1st-2nd November in Nicosia, Cyprus. In this seminar we will explore the possibilities and requirements for place branding in … Continue reading

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Berlin: Bottom-Up Urban Regeneration – With a Little Help from the Top

By Ares Kalandides and Caspar Lundsgaard-Hansen In terms of urban regeneration, Berlin truly is a special city: to this day, the city still boasts comparatively many undeveloped or temporally used areas. Unsurprisingly, the emergence of a large part of these … Continue reading

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Out now: Journal of Place Management and Development, vol 4 issue 3

The latest issue of the Journal of Place Management and Development is now online and available here Content Chung Yim Yiu: The impact of a pedestrianisation scheme on retail rent: an empirical test in Hong Kong, pp. 231 – 242. Deborah Levy, Christina … Continue reading

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It’s a Cool Place, but Don’t Tell Anyone!

by Renard Teipelke Traveling to new destinations is one of human mankind’s greatest experiences. You have two options with respect to a destination’s standing: you can either decide for the well-known, established one or you can try out the relatively … Continue reading

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Switzerland is the World

by Caspar Lundsgaard-Hansen Last week, Efe Sevin posted an interesting article on this blog about the Nation Brands Index. This seemed to me like a good opportunity to hint at the work of Yanko Tsvetkov. The graphic designer and visual … Continue reading

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Place Identity| A Perspective

by Brendan Colgan Identity is a very loose and elusive concept. As Erik Erikson – a  German development psychologist and psychoanalyst, known for his work on social development of humans and for coining the phrase identity crisis – once wrote … Continue reading

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