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Innovation Cities Global Index 2012-2013
Measuring each cities potential as an innovation economy at the current time. World’s largest city classification and global ranking with 445 benchmark cities classified, and top 133 cities analyst ranked this year.
Abandoned railway or blooming park?
Interview: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Discusses State Branding Campaign
If you're a Republican politician in the Upper Midwest, you may appreciate what Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, has done to advance the cause of GOP politics, balanced state budgets, restraints on taxes and anti-unionism with his efforts to roll back the costs and power of public-sector unions. But for some of the same reasons, you probably aren't eager to see an aggressive "Brand Wisconsin" trying to get the companies in your state to expand or relocate in the Badger State.
Paris: Street Art Capital?
As soon as I decided to leave Paris, I've started to discover new facets of this wonderful city.
I just saw a slide show by the BBC & Lonely Planet, saying that Paris is a global capital of street art.
To watch the slideshow, click there: Paris, a global street art capital
Bloom Consulting Country Brand Ranking
Poo Internet. New barter in Mexico City

Hamburg's Manifest Against The Creative Class
Richard Florida’s ghost roams throughout Europe these days. We live in a world of global cities that are involved in an interurban competition to attract investors and the so-called international knowledge worker. Keynesian economic policy has made a shift to an entrepreneurial and managerial approach to metropolitan governance. The unevitable rise of city branding and Florida’s creative class theory are direct derivatives from these developments. In Hamburg, artists who are designated to be the flag carriers of creativity, decided to speak up and no longer tolerate the neoliberal policy shift.
Mayor as bait for tourists
