Monthly Archives: July 2014

Pick of the day: City living and the housing crisis | @guardianletters | Society | The Guardian

We have often written about housing and bubbles in this blog. Here is a collection of short opinions on the UK situation by The Guardian. I find the opening paragraph particularly interesting, though the commentator does not develop it further. … Continue reading

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The limits to product placement

by Ares Kalandides Today I received an email, which I will translate into English and share with you (please find the original German at the bottom). I was rather shocked and I think it questions everything we know about the independence … Continue reading

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Pick of the day: Balancing act: the government’s regional growth plan doesn’t go far enough | New Economics Foundation

We have often written about issues of regional development. Here is a short entry that presents some interesting facts about it at a European level: “Most places in Europe have a bit of a spread. Some countries are richer than … Continue reading

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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – a Designer’s Answer

by Vasso Consola[1] I wrote this text as a reaction to the three blog entries by Ares Kalandides that were based on a research project on fashion businesses in Berlin (part 1, part 2 and part 3). A subsequent Facebook … Continue reading

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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – Resources and Challenges (Part 3 – end)

by Ares Kalandides This is the final part of the blog series on fashion businesses in Berlin.  The series was based on the final report of a small research conducted by INPOLIS in association with the UK AHRC CREATe Project. Central question was the role of intellectual … Continue reading

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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – Resources and Challenges (Part 2)

By Ares Kalandides This is the second part of the final report of the small research conducted by INPOLIS in association with the UK AHRC CREATe Project. Central question was the role of intellectual property in the work of fashion designers in Berlin. Based on … Continue reading

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Pick of the Day: When Seeing Things in Black and White Is Useful

By Renard Teipelke German radar satellites “TerraSAR-X” and “TanDEM-X” are providing 308 terabytes of data to the German National Aeronautics and Space Research Center (DLR) for their project “Global Urban Footprints”. The results are maps in black and white. While … Continue reading

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