Tag Archives: Institute of Place Management

Register for free now: Webinar “High Street UK2020: 50 years of change!”

by Ares Kalandides How much do you know about retail and city centres? How much do you know about the major forces of change that impact on the High Street today? Would you like to know how change can be managed at … Continue reading

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First Workcamp: COBRA – Collaborative Labour Opportunities in Brandenburg

by Jonas Rehmet We are happy to announce that the first workcamp of a total of three separate one-week workcamps of the ESF-project “COBRA – Collaborative Labour Opportunities in Brandenburg” will take place on November 12th, 2013 in Guben, Germany. … Continue reading

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Some thoughts on the Place Management and Place Branding Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University

by Ares Kalandides Back to everyday life after almost a week in Manchester, I will try to write down my thoughts on the conference while they’re still fresh. One reason I enjoyed it immensely was that it was organized almost … Continue reading

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Website is online: Place Management and Branding Conference in Manchester 2013

Link to site: Place Management and Branding Conference. Place branding, place management, place marketing, strategic spatial development, public-private place partnerships, all synonyms describing one thing – the application of business principles to place.  The language and conventions of business have spread … Continue reading

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3RD INTERNATIONAL PLACE BRANDING CONFERENCE and 2ND INTERNATIONAL PLACE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Manchester Metropolitan University 13th-16th February 2013 The Business of Place: Critical, practical and pragmatic perspectives Conference Chairs: Professor Cathy Parker and Dr. Ares Kalandides Place branding, place management, place marketing, strategic spatial development, public-private place partnerships, all synonyms describing one … Continue reading

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Mediterranean Tourism Conference

in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Akdeniz University Antalya) are happy to announce the first edition of the Conference “Destination Management and Branding in the Mediterranean Region” to be held in Antalya in … Continue reading

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Journal of Place Management and Development | Volume 4 issue 1 – Special Issue

Published: March 2011 Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 2nd Place Branding Conference Bogota, Colombia, January 2011 Guest editors: Ares Kalandides and Mihalis Kavaratzis Two years ago, in 2009, we dedicated a special issue of the Journal of Place Management … Continue reading

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Place and Place Management

by Ares Kalandides I was browsing through the site of the Institute of Place Management to understand how they define it and found the following definiton (which I re-write in my own words):

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Prof. Cathy Parker’s comments on the Bogota conference

“…Well firstly the language of place branding, coming from branding and, therefore, focusses on the positive and the controllable. So it is conceptually ‘vacant’ when it comes to the ‘messy’ and often ‘crap’ bits of places, and also the importance … Continue reading

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Report: 2nd International Place Branding Conference | 20th – 22nd January 2011 in Bogota

by Ares Kalandides The Georg Simmel Centre for Metropolitan Research together with in:polis organized the 2nd International Place Branding Conference The Search for Place Identity in Bogotá Colombia 20th – 22nd January 2011. Approximately 100 participants from all over the … Continue reading

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