Tag Archives: Dieter Läpple

Urban Manufacturing/Manufacturing the Urban in Zürich

by Ares Kalandides Last Saturday I wrote a short blog entry with some very quick thoughts after visiting the conference re:Art:the:URBAN in Zürich. These thoughts did not relate to the panel I chaired, but were critical observations on the way … Continue reading

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Place Specificity and Unique Cities. An answer to Kavaratzis. (Part 1)*

by Ares Kalandides The other day Mihalis Kavaratzis made a very interesting point about the uniqueness of places (read Mihalis’ article here). He observed that while city promotion campaigns try to create difference, what they actually do is produce homogeneity. … Continue reading

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