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Tag Archives: Place Identity
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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Living Identities: Intangible Cultural Heritage
By Renard Teipelke Imagine the following situation: A city needs a new or extended piece of infrastructure and as a result it has to deal with the World Heritage status of a corresponding place/building/structure. Often big fights come with the … Continue reading
Posted in miscellaneous, opinions
Tagged cultural heritage, culture, identity, Performance, Place Identity, ranking, tradition, UNESCO, world heritage
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Regionalization and Place Identity (Or: what is really the Niederlausitz?)
by Markus Kather Döbern. Döbern? Optionally this is a small town in (Southern) Brandenburg // near Cottbus // in the Lausitz region // between Dresden and Berlin // near Forst // south of the Spreewald // nearly in Poland // … Continue reading
Posted in opinions, research
Tagged Brandenburg, culture, European Regions, Image, Place Development, Place Identity, Regional Development
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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
Posted in opinions, research
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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Urban gardening in Berlin: contributions to city quality
by Hans Pul Although it is still freezing (at least here in Berlin), it is the time of the year for starting planning and planting this year’s vegetables. Around this time of the year, you can start planting carrots, spinach, … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg, bottom-up, citizen initiatives, city quality, cookbook, flowers, Frisch vom Dach, fruits, garden, gardening projects, Gärten, guerilla garden, guerilla gardening, High Line, kreuzberg, malzfabrik, mariannenplatz, Moritzplatz, Neighbourhood, neighbourhood residents, Neukölln, new york, pioneers, Place Identity, Prinzessinnengarten, public space, San Francisco, sense of place, social function, Steine, sustainability, sustainable, Tempelhof, Tempelhofer Freiheit, Ton, urban agriculture, urban farming, urban garden, urban gardening, urban quality, vegetable market, vegetables, vegetables market
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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
Posted in opinions, research
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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Alternative Mapping – Another Type
By Renard Teipelke In my last article, I wrote about alternative mapping. I referred to somewhat ‘weird’ maps showing France illustrated by various wines or the London underground presented as 100 years of music. My main arguments were that these … Continue reading
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Tagged actor-network theory, augmented reality, Cochoy, design, geography, Image, mapping, Place Identity, Place Marketing, serendipity, urban space
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