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Tag Archives: planning
Key Messages from the ICLEI Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum in Melaka, Malaysia, March 2016
By Renard Teipelke The following are a couple of key messages and interesting thoughts from the ICLEI Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Forum, held in Melaka, Malaysia, 2-4 March 2016. On capacities and partnership: There will always be trade-offs for convincing actors … Continue reading
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Tagged agreement, Asia, budget, Conference, disaster, forum, ICLEI, institution, local government, management, MDGs, monitoring, Pacific, planning, resilience, SDGs, UN, urban planning, vision, youth
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Cultural Flagship Projects – Part III
By Renard Teipelke In my last article of this series on cultural flagship projects, I will present my conclusions of the research I conducted during a field trip in February in Cairo and Alexandria*. I will specifically focus on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, AlexMed, BA, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, branding, Cairo, city tourism, cultural flagship, cultural institutions, Dina Youssef, Egypt, Image, library, MENA, Place Branding, Place Development, planning, revolution, Serageldin, urban space, Zahran
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Let Us Change England’s Economic Geography
By Caspar Lundsgaard-Hansen This week the Economist, a weekly news and international affairs publication from England, highlighted that railroad connections usually serve two directions. You think this is trivial? Well, maybe not.
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Tagged economic development, England, infrastructure, planning
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Criticism -> Skepticism -> Death-Knell-Attitude
By Renard Teipelke For decades, courageous, enthousiastic, and convinced citizens have fought for a better democracy in Germany: more transparent, more direct, more accountable. What these citizens have achieved can hardly be described by any words. They fought the system, … Continue reading
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Tagged against, chance, crisis, critic, culture, democracy, demonstration, development, economic development, fight, future, growth, no, opportunity, place, Place Development, Place Management, planning, project, protest, risk, skepticism, system, urban planning, urban space, youth
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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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Tagged africa, Balkan, climate, Conference, conflict, country brand, crisis, culture, economic development, ecotourism, governance, Greece, growth, heritage, Institute of Place Management, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, licensing, local community, local product, Mediterranean, Network, place, Place Branding, Place Development, Place Identity, Place Management, Place Marketing, planning, Portugal, Spain, stakeholder, sustainibility, Syria, tourism, turkey, urban planning, urban space
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2nd Nordic Urban Workshop at Stockholm University 25th-26th October 2011
Welcome to the second Nordic Urban workshop, a two-day meeting directed towards PhD students and young researchers studying urban dynamics from a broad range of disciplines. The workshop features a key lecture and a career strategy discussion, along with parallel … Continue reading
Horizontal and Vertical Gentrification
By Renard Teipelke The best design feature of One Museum Park is that not a single view is compromised. Every vista, from every home is a spectacular one – and each is guaranteed to be unobstructed forever. From it’s [sic!] … Continue reading
Four Days of Critical Geography: 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting in Roskilde, Denmark
By Renard Teipelke From May 24th to 27th 2011, more than 200 scholars met in Roskilde, Denmark, for the 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting – an international conference not only for geographers, but also for experts from other disciplines (such as … Continue reading
World’s largest mall is a ghost town
by Nils Grube The New South Mall in Dongguan, China — the largest in the world and twice the size of Minnesota’s Mall of America— has just a 1% occupancy rate. The mall is located between the two emerging megacities … Continue reading
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Tagged Dongguan, economic development, entertainment center, New South Mall, Part 3, PBS, Place Development, planning, shopping malls, urban planning, Utopia
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Spaces of Transformation – successful places (part 2)
by Ares Kalandides (for Part 1 see here) Material resources are things such as the quality and quantity of available space, the use and exchange value of land, density, heterogeneity etc. From my experience what is particularly important for the … Continue reading
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Tagged creative economy, Hafencity, Hamburg, Oberhafen, planning
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