The Power of Design: A Journey through the 11 UNESCO Cities of Design

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Front Matter....Pages 1-5 Introduction....Pages 7-10 Front Matter....Pages 12-14 Berlin — The City of Creative People....Pages 15-20 DMY International Design Festival Berlin — Design is about Change....Pages 21-29 Front Matter....Pages 30-32 Saint-Etienne — The City of Militant Design Activists....Pages 33-38 From Weapons Manufacturing to Cité du design ....Pages 39-47 Front Matter....Pages 48-50 Buenos Aires — The First City of Design....Pages 51-56 Palermo — The Power of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems....Pages 57-65 Front Matter....Pages 66-68 Montreal — Developing the City through Design....Pages 69-74 The Design Montreal Open House ....Pages 75-85 Front Matter....Pages 86-88 Nagoya — The City of the Design City Declaration ....Pages 89-96 The City of Monozukuri: the Art of Making Things....Pages 97-105 Front Matter....Pages 106-108 Kobe — Aiming to be a Design City....Pages 109-114 The Design Creative Center Kobe....Pages 115-125 Front Matter....Pages 126-128 Seoul — The Mecca of World Design....Pages 129-134 Design Seoul — Design Caring for Citizens....Pages 135-145 Front Matter....Pages 146-148 Shanghai — The City of Transrapid Progress....Pages 149-156 Creative City Parks....Pages 157-167 Front Matter....Pages 168-170 Beijing — a City of Design with World Heritage Sites....Pages 171-176 798 Gongchang....Pages 177-185 Front Matter....Pages 186-188 Shenzhen — From 30,000 to 12 Million in 30 Years....Pages 189-194 Front Matter....Pages 186-188 Visiting Two Cultural Industrial Clusters....Pages 195-207 Front Matter....Pages 208-210 Graz — On the Way to being a Creative City....Pages 211-216 The Graz T — A tactile Ground Guidance System for Visually Impaired People....Pages 217-224 Back Matter....Pages 226-234