Opportunity is local (Or: You can’t buy a new economy)
Brendan Crain / February 6, 2013 / www.pps.org
Brendan Crain has written a thought-provoking new post on the Project for Public Spaces Blog in which he argues that placemaking is “more about the identification and development of local talent, not the attraction of talent from afar.”

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