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Web-based tools to promote a high street
Kärtnerstrasse in Vienna's historic centre by Valentin Schipfer In my last blog entry I introduced you to our ongoing project in Potsdam. Together with local stakeholders Inpolis and dieraumplaner are...
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Towns in Transition? Resilient Innovation as Response.
A clean town that works for everyone. by Valentin Schipfer When my flat mate, an architect, came back from one of his field trips from Great Britain last week, he seemed kind of enlightened. Some...
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Raw material from Brazil’s favelas on its way to Europe’s nightclubs
by Valentin Schipfer This blog entry is as close to urban life as the discussed music style to their dancers. I put the focus on Baile Funk - an important part of social and cultural identity of...
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The Vertical Garden City: Towards a New Urban Topology
The Vertical Garden City: Towards a New Urban Topology | Chris Abel | Comment is free | planetizen.com Filed under: opinions, pick of the day, research Tagged: Ebenezer Howard, Foster + Partners,...
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Mission (im)possible: Branding a city built from scratch?
by Valentin Schipfer Building a city from scratch is not an easy task, but branding a city which still has to be built from scratch is even harder. Will the invented brand really accord to reality? Is...
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Fresh from Motown – A Shrinking City as an Incubator for Social and Creative...
by Valentin Schipfer I have always been fascinated by shrinking cities like Detroit. Maybe because of their mysteriousness, their myths and the thousands of pictures of ruins in the internet. But last...
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More Innovations from Informal Settlements!
Spaza-de-Move-On self-built by street vendor Moses Gwiba in Durban, South Africa. Lately it has become kind of a trend to talk or write about informal settlements – mainly about those in the southern...
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From User to Neighbour – How Social Media Enters the Local Level
by Anna Kuzmina by Valentin Schipfer One could assume that individualism in urban areas has been underpinned by a sense of communitarism since the last decade. Terms like community gardening, food...
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Second Hand Spaces – Recylcling Sites Undergoing Urban Transformation
Former temporary use in Vienna – the so-called Fox House by Valentin Schipfer It all began at Vienna’s Ur3anize! Festival which lasted for a week in October this year. There I attended an evening...
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From Augmented to Integrated Urban Realities
Share your view real-time! by Valentin Schipfer When I blogged about augmented reality apps more than a year ago, I’ve already thought that our society was finally entering futuristic, sci-fi...
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Guerilla Tactics vs. Boredom and Stupidity!
Typical graffiti from Sao Paulo by Valentin Schipfer Did you know that some years ago the megalopolis São Paulo in Brazil had banned commercial advertising in the city? Since stone-age cave-painting we...
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An entrepreneurial journey on European bikes from African flying toilets to...
Sanitation problems. by Valentin Schipfer Who can’t stand reading nor hearing nor watching something about the Eurozone crisis no more – except me? I don’t think that I am alone with that. Newspapers,...
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Superkilen: Putting an urbanistic soul into Copenhagen’s problem child
by Valentin Schipfer Together with ideas from 62 different nations Copenhagen turned a former undefined, urban strip into a vivid, permanent, open-air exhibition. Where riots got out of hand in recent...
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Not Data but Wood for Smart Cities.
LCT Tower – wood construction. by Valentin Schipfer What about building skyscrapers with 30 floors made out of nothing else than wood? If you had asked me two years ago, I probably would have started...
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Pick of the day: 5000 Payphones Relive New York City’s Gritty 90s. On...
“The popular image of New York City today is of a shiny global capital — a sleek and modern, 24-hour city with a booming economy and internationally influential art and design scene. How quickly the...
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Pick of the day: A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of...
The area that will become the Hantz Woodlands. Photo by Joseph Murphy/Bassett & Bassett After nearly five years of planning, a large-scale attempt to turn a big chunk of Detroit into an urban...
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Has Austria become a case for the psychoanalyst?
Felix Austria by Thomas Draschan,2011 by Valentin Schipfer What does a nation stand for? A question almost as hard to answer as the most fundamental question about the meaning of life. On behalf of...
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Crowdfunded Urbanism – Breaking new ground in civic participation.
by Valentin Schipfer To be honest, I have never parted with Euros for any crowdfunding project until today. I suppose ideas on www.kickstarter.com , www.indiegogo.com or similar platforms have not yet...
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7 Best-Practices of Urbanism Acting Social
by Valentin Schipfer As you know my blog entries regularly deal with social innovations being realized in bottom-up co-operational projects between Northern institutions and informal urban...
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Open Data – What Now? 7 Ideas for Your City
by Valentin Schipfer Everbody talks about smart cities while nobody really knows what hides behind it. Is it about open data and communication technologies or about mobility? Is it about...
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