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Crain's Chicago Business: Crain's Forum on Rebranding Chicago

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of my earliest pieces " Town-City branding or "We are all destination managers now" " (2005) was later expanded into the concept of a city's elected officials and stakeholders are its brand managers in commercial district revitalization framework plans I wrote in 2008 for Cambridge, Maryland, and Brunswick, Georgia. New Geography).

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Thanks Obama! (for saving my life)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I had been doing some reading on the New Deal, when the US Government did so many great things. This was made worse by the neoliberalism philosophy adopted soon after (" Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems ," Guardian ), which exalted the market and private sector action and denigrated government as a failure.

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