city brand

Communication as a service using the example of a city

PERSPECTIVES

When we talk about public design, communication, or branding, we must first make a clear distinction between public institutions and commercial enterprises. A public institution […]

Are city brands valuable? From Claims to Calculations

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

In June 2024, Dortmund’s city council adopted a new brand narrative. By May 2025, the corresponding design was introduced. Under the guiding claim “The Only One of […]

Urban Villages™. On the Commodification of Heterogeneity in the Branded Cityscape

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

A MODEST PROPOSAL

Urban branding is based on a fundamental paradox: it seeks uniqueness—yet increasingly draws on what has traditionally resisted representation. It is the unruly, unofficial, socially unregulated spaces […]

Frankfurt D.C.

Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Klemp

The station district had already had its fair share of the 2024 European Football Championships: "NO GO ZONE". England fans in 'Zombieland' Frankfurt have to run the […]

City or brand?

Dr. Eric Häusler Prof. Dr. Jürgen Häusler

City branding as a new form of urban governance. The city has never been merely a space of coexistence, but always also an object of observation, classification, […]