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Tag Archives: Creative Cities
ON THE CREATIVE QUESTION | MANIFESTO BY GEERT LOVINK, SEBASTIAN OLMA & NED ROSSITER
On the Creative Question – Nine Theses* By Geert Lovink, Sebastian Olma and Ned Rossiter ‘Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted’. ― Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge ‘We … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Cities, creative industries, creativity, social innovation
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CAN YOU REALLY DESIGN A CREATIVE NEIGHBOURHOOD? NORMAN FOSTER PLANS FOR HIPSTERS IN DUBAI
by Ares Kalandides “Norman Foster’s architecture firm will deliver the second phase of the Dubai Design District, also known as D3, which is a new creative quarter being built from scratch in the United Arab Emirates city.” How many clichés … Continue reading
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Tagged creative, Creative Cities, Creative Class, Dubai, Norman Foster, Place Branding
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You Want Another Index? Here We Go with INNOVATION!
By Renard Teipelke There is probably no index missing in the profession (and obsession) of ranking cities. One index that was recently mentioned in the UN-Habitat State of the World Cities Report 2012/2013 is the Innovation Cities Index. 2thinknow, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2thinknow, Creative Cities, creativity, culture, economy, index, innovation, progress, ranking, smart
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Global City Indicators Facility
By Renard Teipelke “The Global City Indicators Facility provides an established set of city indicators with a globally standardized methodology that allows for global comparability of city performance and knowledge sharing.” This web-based relational database website, Global City Indicators Facility … Continue reading
Implementing a Place Branding strategy: Bogotá UNESCO City of Music
by Ares Kalandides Last month Bogotá was designated “City of Music” by the UNESCO, and it now participates in the growing network of “Creative Cities” that counts 30 cities from all over the word – 5 of which are Cities … Continue reading
Cultural Flagship Projects – Part II
by Renard Teipelke In my first article on cultural flagship projects*, I tried to conceptualize the topic. Now, I will connect the flagship idea ‘Western style’ with the Middle Eastern North African (MENA) region. My last article will deal with … Continue reading
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Tagged Abu Dhabi, Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, branding, Cairo, Creative Cities, Creative Class, creative economy, cultural flagship, culture, Damascus, design, economic development, Image, MENA, Muscat, Oman, opera house, Place Branding, Place Development, Place Identity, Saddiyat Island, Syria, urban planning, urban regeneration
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Cultural Flagship Projects – Part I
by Renard Teipelke In the next weeks, I will contribute a series of articles on cultural flagship projects to this blog.* Since Kenneth Wardrop and other authors have already written about British and Scottish cities reinventing themselves through branding their … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, branding, Creative Cities, Creative Class, creative economy, cultural flagship, culture, design, economic development, Image, MENA, Place Branding, Place Development, Place Identity, urban planning, urban regeneration
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Creative Cities International — The Vitality Index (VI)
by Brendan Colgan Last summer Creative Cities International (CCI) launched a new cultural impact study in the U.S. entitled the Vitality Index (VI) [click here for the report]. The study aims to model the “human experience of the city at its … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, boston, California, CCI, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Creative Cities, cultural institutions, Detroit, Distictiveness, downtown, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Linda Lees, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, new york, New York City, parks, philadelphia, Phoenix, pittsburgh, pulic access, Raleigh, San Antonio, San Jose, seattle, sense of place, sustainibility, Tampa, Tulsa, U.S., urban space, urbanism, USA, VI, Vitality Index
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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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Tagged Creative Cities, creative cities network, Edinburgh, Edinburgh City of Literature, glasgow, Glasgow City of Music, Harry Potter, JK Rowling, National Library of Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Poetry Library, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Scott, UNESCO, wardrop, Writers Museum
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