Great Marketing For A City
Seen in Boston yesterday outside a tee-shirt shop. This says it all about Boston, one of the world's top tech centers that is full of ...
Add Graffiti to the List of West Coast Urban Problems
Several days ago, both the LA Times reported on how taggers had spray painted their names on the corner windows of three +20-story buildings in ...
Where CNU and Strong Towns Should Have Met: Greenville, SC
I just drove down here, and I've seen more cool urban "stuff" in one hour here than I saw in two days in Charlotte. It ...
Charlotte’s Brutal Corporate Urbanism
By deposits, Charlotte NC is the country's second-largest banking center, and it shows in the way downtown has developed, both in the scale of the ...
Why Downtown Charlotte Fails as a Place
Charlotte residents may not know it, but when in 1998 their hometown Nations Bank bought and moved California-based Bank of America (originally the Bank of ...
For The Fogo Inn, A Community-Based Venture In Newfoundland
Note that this shows how much of the spending "sticks" locally.
Will The Loss of Confidence In The Future of Downtown LA Stop Its Recovery?
What happens to downtown Los Angeles matters to the rest of us. With 40 million square feet and more than 300,00 workers, downtown Los Angeles ...
A “My Cousin Vinny” Approach to Filling Buildings With New Industry
The Marisa Tomei character in this has to prove she's much more than an aspiring hairdresser. She rattles off her automotive expertise, which includes not ...
Only One Northern City Is In Top Ten For Attracting College Graduates
The "Upshot", an arm of the New York Times, used census data to look at where college graduates are moving among 41 metro areas. Notably, ...
Why Pioneer Square is a Better Fit for the Creative Economy than South Lake Union
Why old work districts fit the needs of new creative workers better than the sleek tech zones such as South Lake Union. One reason: small ...