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Tag Archives: Ares Kalandides
Naples: The anti-tourist city
by Ares Kalandides I’m not often a tourist – a real tourist I mean. I usually travel to places for work or in order to meet friends. But last week I visited Naples in Italy for the third time in … Continue reading
From the “Bridge of Spies” to the Smart City: a Berlin narrative
by Ares Kalandides [1] Reading the multiple stories that have been praising Berlin with its youth culture and creative scene as the rising star among European cities, it is easy to forget how recent this development actually is. The 2015 Spielberg … Continue reading
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Tagged Ares Kalandides, Berlin, creative economy, Image, Place Branding, Place Identity, Place Marketing, tourism, urban space
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? FOSTERING EQUITABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BERLIN
by Ares Kalandides On May 7th, 2015, I had the opportunity to open the Berlin-Sydney online dialogue with a short presentation, followed by a Q&A session about urban development in Berlin. The event was coordinated between the Committee for Sydney … Continue reading
Posted in conferences
Tagged Ares Kalandides, Berlin, comprehensive planning, economic development, Sydney, urban development
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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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Tagged access to markets, Ares Kalandides, Berlin, demand-side policy, entrepreneurship, fashion, UK AHRC CREATe
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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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Tagged Ares Kalandides, fashion, inpolis, knowledge, skills, space, Vasso Consola
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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – Resources and Challenges (Part 1)
by Ares Kalandides When the next Berlin Fashion Week opens its doors on 8th July, fashion aficionados from all over the world will flood the city, filling up show rooms and catwalks. Through the efforts of the Berlin administration and a very lively … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela McRobbie, Ares Kalandides, Berlin, entrepreneurship, fashion, funding, inpolis, microloans, Vasso Consola
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CULTURE IS ECONOMY – OR MAYBE NOT? (TAKE 2)
by Ares Kalandides The other day, following an “unfortunate” speech by the Greek minister of Culture and Sports, I offered some thoughts on culture and the creative economy (here on this blog). Only the day after, on Sunday 23rd February … Continue reading
“Culture is economy” – or maybe not?
by Ares Kalandides On 20th of February 2014, the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports Mr. Panos Panagiotopoulos delivered the opening speech of the EU conference ‘Financing Creativity’ in Athens. The aim of the conference was to address models of … Continue reading
Bogotá – the Decades of Transformation*
by Ares Kalandides When, in 2012 UNESCO decided to include Bogotá in the network of creative cities, the surprise was huge: the city of drugs and kidnapping, of violence and of civil war, a “creative city”? Yes, it is hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Ares Kalandides, Bogota, Ciclovía, Colombia, culture, Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro
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Pick of the Day: African Cities and the Evil of Global City Development Paradigms
By Renard Teipelke A critical discussion about “Global Cities” is neither new to this blog (see for instance 1, 2, 3) nor to the community of critical geographic research. However, our understanding of “Global Cities” and “Ordinary Cities” in the … Continue reading
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