Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Electronic tether or learning about technology from the antics of elected officials


Electronic tether
Originally uploaded by rllayman
A sorry tale in the continuum of "personalization" and aggrandizement of the authority and responsibilities of elected office comes from the debacle in Detroit. This graphic ran in the Detroit Free Press in an article about the recently jailed Mayor.

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