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A "Moment of Inflection" for Detroit

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Brand Avenue 2011-10-03 00:13:26
Twenty years from now, what do you think people will say about this turning point in Detroit? What will you remain proud of and what do you think will have people scratching their heads? I think they?ll scratch their heads over two things. First, how it was possible for a major American city to have dug such a deep hole ? financially, …

A New Blueprint for Austin

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Brand Avenue 2011-10-03 00:09:16
After two years of debates and committee meetings, Austin officials have unveiled a broad vision for growth that condemns traditional suburban development and is garnering both praise and skepticism.The proposed, 197-page "comprehensive plan" would be the city's official philosophy for managing a booming population and the new housing, businesses, shops and restaurants that will come with it. The plan, dubbed Imagine …

Place Porn

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Brand Avenue 2011-09-16 17:21:47
I used to seriously entertain the idea of moving. This was back when I was less encumbered and traveled quite a bit. Every trip wound up as an audition for my New Hometown. Within a few days, I?d have decided which house would be mine, picked out which coffee shop I?d frequent, relished the thought of how much cheaper and easier …

The Road to Exurbia

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Brand Avenue 2011-09-16 14:48:44
Western Massachusetts does not resemble the metastasizing landscapes we?ve come to recognize over the last decade, the frenzy of bulldozers and stoplights, the clusters of KB Home or Toll Brothers signs pointing toward levees outside Sacramento or into hardwood copses north of Raleigh, the subdivisions tamped into Florida citrus groves. The history of my dad?s town, and perhaps more importantly, its …

The Scent of Departure

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Brand Avenue 2011-09-16 14:11:24
Much like a landmark, it seems that a smell can distinguish one city from another. New fragrances capturing the ?essence and spirit? of destinations have hit the airport duty free shelves, promising tourists lingering memories of their trip abroad. The Scent of Departure collection was launched in April with five perfumes inspired by the cities of Frankfurt, Budapest, Vienna, Munich and Istanbul. The brand …

PGH, the White

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Brand Avenue 2011-09-06 15:13:41
It would be hard for any metropolitan area to be whiter than Pittsburgh. It's so hard, in fact, that of the 100 largest metro areas in the United States, only one has a smaller share of blacks, Hispanics and Asians -- the Scranton-Wilkes Barre region of northeastern Pennsylvania. A new Brookings Institution report released last week, examining 2010 census data on how Americans …

231st Street Builds Its Future

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Brand Avenue 2011-09-06 14:13:34
Kingsbridge has long been home to an ethnically diverse cross section of middle- and working-class residents. Now developers of two new condo buildings are trying to attract more affluent families to the area from northern Manhattan and beyond. One selling point for West Kingsbridge is its proximity to Riverdale, a wealthier Bronx community on the Hudson River. While West 231st is just …

National Identity and Disaster Movies

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Brand Avenue 2011-08-24 15:40:57
When films like Independence Day show news reports of spacecraft threatening major global cities, they always seem to leave out Calgary or Montreal. For some reason, Godzilla has yet to make a detour to Halifax and Roland Emmerich has yet to drop an aircraft carrier on Medicine Hat. And when Canadian landmarks are destroyed on film, like Vancouver's Lion's Gate Bridge …

Goodbye, White Picket Fence

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Brand Avenue 2011-08-03 20:55:34
After nine years, we did what some people would deem inappropriate. Others might even call it unthinkable. We sold our suburban house, got rid of 90 per cent of our stuff and moved back to the city. It?s not like we were empty-nesters downsizing once the kids had left. No, we still had the kids in tow ? two in elementary and …

"Poor But Sexy" vs. Manhattanism

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Brand Avenue 2011-08-03 15:36:31
"Brooklyn" now carries with it a cultural cache that I have become inured to after living here for 5 years. Brooklyn, in my world, means visitors asking if my neighborhood is safe to visit at night, RSVPs that don't show up to events, friends in Manhattan complaining about how "accessible" various neighborhoods are. Brooklyn, outside of New York, means something else. …

Buzzword: Urban "Acupuncture"

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Brand Avenue 2011-08-02 16:08:59
Could urban design infused with Chinese medicinal theory offer a solution? Watch for the "urban acupuncture" movement to transform urban life in the coming decade. Traced to Finnish architect Marco Casagrande, this school of thought eschews massive urban renewal projects in favour a of more localised and community approach. "Urban acupuncture is a surgical and selective intervention into the urban environment," said …

From Holland, "Starting" With Bike Lanes

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Brand Avenue 2011-08-02 15:39:57
For American cities to think outside the car would seem to require a mental sea change. Then again, Americans, too, are practical, no-nonsense people. And Zef Hemel, the chief planner for the city of Amsterdam, reminded me that sea changes do happen. ?Back in the 1960s, we were doing the same thing as America, making cities car-friendly,? he said. Funnily enough, …

How To Build An "Innovation District"

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Brand Avenue 2011-07-29 15:50:32
"Innovation district? is an oxymoron. Today many innovators could be anywhere as long as they have a laptop and a place to get a good cup of coffee. But creativity does have a spatial component, which is why Boston; Barcelona, Spain; Portland, Oregon; and a host of other cities have pinned their hopes for urban renewal on areas branded as Innovation …

City Avenue Redux

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Brand Avenue 2011-07-29 15:19:55
In the 1970s, the stretch of City Avenue located just west of the Interstate 76 interchange was known as the Golden Mile for Lower Merion's gleaming collection of corporate headquarters, which were drawn there by its low tax rate and easy access to Philadelphia. But the luster has dulled. Decline has set in. And it's visibly worse on the suburban side. Philadelphia …

"What's Iconic and Supportable?"

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Brand Avenue 2011-07-25 19:08:28
As construction cranes dot the sky at Tysons Corner and Montgomery County redraws master plans for its more congested communities, planner Neal Payton just has one question -- who do they think they are? New town centers' success hinges on creating an identity, said Payton, principal at the firm Torti Gallas and Partners in Los Angeles. "What about your place is particularly …

The Adolescent West

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Brand Avenue 2011-07-05 18:36:35
Logan, Utah, isn?t too anything. It?s not too big or too small, but it?s also not just right. Like many Western towns and small cities of about 50,000 people, it?s as confused as a hormonally challenged adolescent. Policy moods swing wildly between pro-development mayors and ones who want to go back to family-friendly neighborhoods. We want to restore the downtown, but we …

High Street As Knowledge Hub

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Brand Avenue 2011-07-05 17:13:34
In looking at how to rebuild the economy, fundamentals need rethinking, and that includes the high street. Speaking last week at the annual Co-operative Congress I found surprising, welcome heretical thoughts percolating up through the membership. "How should we change our model, so that we are not just selling more stuff and promoting consumption for its own sake," asked one. "How …

Is the iPhone Why Gen Y Love Public Transport?

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Brand Avenue 2011-06-29 15:48:48
The ?mystery factor? driving faster patronage growth on public transport may be Gen Y?s enthusiasm for staying connected through smartphones. Speaking to a reporter from The West Australian last week, Professor Peter Newman argued that previous generations found freedom and flexibility through the car, but generation Ys find freedom and flexibility by staying connected to friends, family and workplaces through information devices like …

The Medium Chill

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Brand Avenue 2011-06-28 15:23:54
The medium chill involves what economists call satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough. It means stepping off the aspirational treadmill, foregoing some material opportunities and accepting some material constraints in exchange for more time to spend on relationships and experiences. It turns out, though, that satisficing doesn't come easy to us human beings. We have an …

One Of the Four Corners of the Earth, Reborn

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Brand Avenue 2011-06-28 15:01:12
A 110-square-mile, windswept outcrop of bald rock overlooking the raging north Atlantic, off Newfoundland, Fogo is home to 2,700 fishermen or descendants of, and a considerably larger population of gannets whose shrill cries provide a constant soundtrack. This is life right on the edge. Indeed the Flat Earth Society considers Fogo Island one of the four corners of a flat earth. It's …

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