Ares Kalandides is a Berlin-based urban planner and consultant in place branding. He is the founder and CEO of INPOLIS a Place Management & Spatial Planning consultancy that offers services to cities, neighbourhoods and regions. He has been a consultant to Berlin Partner (the city’s marketing organization) since 1996 and has consulted various districts, cities, and regions in Germany and worldwide.

Kalandides is a director of the Institute of Place Management(Manchester) and editorial member of the Journal of Place Management and Development. He is currently a professor in Metropolitan Studies at NYU Berlin and the editor of the blog Places.

Ares Kalandides spoke to Rethinking Greece about  the Greek-German connection, the current crisis narratives, and how to rebuild  Greece’s reputation.

Read the full interview here.