Tag Archives: Barcelona

A New Economic Agenda for Cities and Metropolitan Areas

12 June 11 0 Comments

I spoke last week at a Global Metro Conference in Barcelona, co-hosted by ESADE geo-Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics in Barcelona and the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program in Washington, DC.

The keynote addresses were delivered by Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT and by Bruce Katz,…

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Cities for visitors or for locals? A journey through the ‘top 200′ cities of the world

26 September 10 6 Comments

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Many of my posts this year have tended to focus on the impact of the 2010 Football World Cup in Cape Town. Well, it was considerable. But now that the big event has come and gone, I thought that it would be nice to broaden my horizons once again and…

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Enlivening public spaces

20 November 09 0 Comments

There is nothing better than a city with great public art, sculptures, murals and posters in well-used public spaces. Here are some of my favourite examples…
 
To be continued…

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City archives: No A La Guerra

08 November 09 0 Comments

In March 2003, I was in Barcelona to learn more about a new global event, the World Cultural Forum, and to evaluate whether it would be something that Cape Town should consider bidding for. After attending an evening function in the Eixample, I decided to walk the 25 blocks back to…

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