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The city of Venice absorbs 20 million tourists each year. In addition, rising water levels have meant an increasing number of floods each year. A new barrier aims to keep Mother Nature at bay, but Venice faces an equally big problem: Its population is shrinking dramatically as Venetians flee the city.
=> An excellent article on how tourism (among other things) can damage a city. Read the whole article in the English version of Der Spiegel
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hypercities is a project of a collaboration of American universities under the lead of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) which has created a comprehensive Internet platform for the integration of geographical material in Google Maps. Continue reading
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by Ares Kalandides
Inside consultures is the communication agency behind this spot for the candidature of the city of Tarragona for the XVIII Mediterranean Olympic Games in 2017.
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): Continue reading
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By Mihalis Kavaratzis
The 2nd International Place Branding Conference attracted both academics and practitioners from all over the world. Intense discussions took place during the three days in Bogota. Although at first glance the discussions might not seem to lead to concrete conclusions, in my view, their value lies in the process and not the end result. Here are the three reasons why I think that the conference was a success or the three inspirations that this conference has generated: Continue reading
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5 viedos on youtube from the Bogota conference
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“…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 of partnership and coordination in the orchestration of actions (Kavaratzis, 2008). Continue reading
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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 world spent 3 days discussing theory, methodology and implementation of Place Branding in an international and interdisciplinary context.The conference was a step further towards not only understanding how to brand places, but especially what it is we are doing. Here is what I got from the conference:
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Evaluation of urban spaces - Communicative practices and discursive arrangements in urban settings
« Bewertung urbaner Räume » Kommunikative Praxis und diskursive Arrangements in Einstellungen zur Stadt Continue reading
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by Mareike Forßbohm
The article ’Your country needs you – time to sell brand britain’ published in the MarkeetingWeek deals with the image problems of Great Britain. The UK drops to the 9th place of the FutureBrand’s country brand index lists published in November 2010 (the index includes the areas awareness, familiarity, preference, consideration, advocacy and active decisions to visit). Continue reading
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