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Reporting the Eurozone’s Crisis: Lessons from the Greek Front (*)
Reblogged from Yanis Varoufakis: Over the past two years, the economic crisis that has engulfed Greece has also thrust me in front of the microphones and note pads of the myriad journalists who descended upon Athens to report on the … Continue reading
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Squatting in German Cities: Then and Now
By Renard Teipelke Last Thursday, November 17, 2011, gentrification and urban politics experts Andrej Holm and Wolf Wetzel gave a lecture at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. The lecture was titled “Squatting is worthwhile – staying, too” and combined the two … Continue reading
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Second Call for Papers | Mediterranean Tourism Conference in Antalya April 2012
(Subscribe to the blog to receive regular updates and related news ) in:polis | urbanism in cooperation with the School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Akdeniz University Antalya) are happy to announce the Second Call for Papers for the Conference … Continue reading
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M&Ms in Wisconsin – Part II: Milwaukee
By Renard Teipelke Only four mayors in 60 years – three of them socialists (sic!). Considering Milwaukee’s 20th century history, the preconditions are really exciting for a US-American city. The Sewer Socialist movement emerged from Milwaukee and included famous figures … Continue reading
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The ‘Gate’ in ‘Gated Communities’
By Renard Teipelke The network Architects for Architects and Plattenvereinigung hosted a panel discussion (on Wednesday, August 24th, 2011, at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin) titled “Gated Communities – Are we heading toward a two-tier society?” The panel, moderated … Continue reading
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B(r)and Aid for Nations
By Renard Teipelke Do you remember the time when some nations or their progressive leaders/decision makers thought of nation branding as an innovative and cool tool to position their country in a globalized world?! That is to say: a time … Continue reading
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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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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11th Symposium of the Humboldt Economics Forum: Growth and/or Sustainability!? – Part I
>>> Read Part II >>> Read Part III by Renard Teipelke Part I The world struggles with major challenges ranging from the global economic crisis to terrorism and in Germany, intellectuals come together to discuss issues often pejoratively ascribed to … Continue reading
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