The book titled *The City Works*

The City
Works

A book about how
communication can become
urban operation

The story of the Kolorcity model: a city where experience,
content, visual identity, strategy and local media connect into
one functioning system.

HU
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Communication
can be more
than a campaign.

The book shows how city marketing can become
one of the organizing forces of urban operation.

How experience, story, visual identity, local media,
community attention and strategic direction connect
within a city.

Through the Kolorcity model, the book presents a way of
thinking in which communication becomes an interpretive
and organizing layer of urban operation.

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The Kolorcity
model

01

Experience

What the city’s community
lives through.

03

Visual identity

How the city becomes
recognizable.

02

Content

What the city tells
and passes on.

04

Strategy

The long-term
direction of the operation.

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Who is it for?

Why is it credible?

  • For those who build cities,
    communities and systems.
  • For mayors and city leaders
  • For municipal communication
    professionals
  • For city marketing specialists
  • For those working in local
    media
  • For leaders of cultural and
    urban institutions
  • For event organizers
  • For university students and
    lecturers
  • For professional partners,
    supporters and sponsors
  • Born from real urban practice.
  • Kazincbarcika-based field
    experience
  • The Kolorcity brand and city
    marketing system
  • Kolor TV and the local media
    model
  • City Marketing Diamond
    Awards
  • The Small City Marketing
    Ambassador special award
  • TDK / OTDK professional
    background
  • An adaptable urban operation
    model developed and
    presented in the book
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What does
the
reader
receive?

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Professional
recommendations

„It creates a new genre
by
building a practical
model
based on personal
experience.”
 

“It presents a comprehensive
framework of thinking in which
the
city can be understood as
a living, continuously evolving
system.
 

Prof. Dr. István Piskóti

University professor, founding
president
of the City Marketing
Institute of the
Hungarian
Marketing Association

„It presents a
comprehensive
framework
of thinking in which
the
city can be understood as
a living, continuously
evolving
system”

The strength of the book lies in the
fact that it
builds on real experience
and shows, through
concrete examples,
how this integrated
operation comes
together in practice.

Dr. Tímea H. Tomesz

Associate professor

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Ordering, support, lecture

01

Book order (EPUB)

For individuals, professionals and
interested readers who would like
to
understand the thinking behind
the
Kolorcity model.

03

Supporter cooperation

For partners who would like to connect
to
the world of city marketing, local media,
community building and knowledge
sharing.

02

Institutional order

For municipalities, city-owned
companies,
institutions, libraries
and universities, for
representative
or professional use.

 

04

Lecture / book presentation

For urban, professional, university,
conference or workshop settings.

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The author

Norbert Halász

Norbert Halász is a communication professional, city marketing
specialist and head of A Stáb, a communication and production
workshop.

For several years, he has worked on the development of
Kazincbarcika’s city marketing, urban communication, media
system and event communication.

His work focuses on integrated urban operation, local media,
community attention and system-level communication.

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If the city works,
communication
must work as well