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Category Archives: miscellaneous
The Challenge of Hosting Different Visitors
By Renard Teipelke I was walking through the streets of Ha Noi, when a shoe polisher insisted on cleaning my ‘apparently’ dirty shoes. I happened to be in the capital city of Viet Nam for ‘business matters’ – not as … Continue reading
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Tagged air, business, diversification, economic development, Egypt, growth, guest, Hanoi, hub, mall, Metro Manila, Philippines, Spain, tourism, transport, urban economy, Vietnam, visitor
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Private Cities: When Ikea and Co. Develop Your City
by Valentin Schipfer Concrete gold is back. Since the financial crisis in 2008 real-estate has become one of the most popular types of investment. No matter whether you are an international developer or a speculator, most cities welcome you with … Continue reading
Genuine Street Art by the Invisible Hands of the Cities
by Valentin Schipfer The old parts of European cities are beautiful examples for what develops when coincidence acts as the main city-planner. While in most of these cities master-planning has replaced this uncoordinated interaction, coincidence is still active in cities … Continue reading
Unlimited Growth of Gulf Airports: The Sky Has a Limit?!
By Renard Teipelke If you happen to travel between Europe, Africa, and Asia, you will nowadays very likely stopover and transfer in one of the big airport hubs of the Middle East: Dubai, Doha, or Abu Dhabi. Strategically located between … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Dhabi, air travel, city state, Doha, Dubai, growth, infrastructure, Middle East, Network, Qatar, socio-technical, sustainability, transport, United Arab Emirates, urban design
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New Ways on how Cities are buying Technologies and Services
by Valentin Schipfer Each week another one million reasons arise which ultimately consolidate cities as the main sceneries of the 21st century’s world population. One million – that’s the number of people moving from rural to urban areas every seven … Continue reading
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Conferences: New page on “Places.”
We have added a new page to the blog called Conferences. We are putting together a list of regular and upcoming conferences, which will be updated regularly. You are most welcome to publish comments with additional conferences that fit the subjects … 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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The Rooftop: An Urban Refugium between Function and Lifestyle
By Renard Teipelke My view goes down from the sky to the ground. It is the bird’s eye view on a city. I am standing on one of these “skydecks”, which every larger city has to offer nowadays. But I … Continue reading
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