Brand Avenue is about urbanism. Brand Avenue explores ideas ofplace, space and identity--mostly via architecture, planning, urbandesign, marketing, and urban development.The following is a smattering of representative posts and personal favorites that may be of interest:- Starbucks Writ Large; urbanism, consumption, and brand- Interaction and Choreography; public space and retail- Local Color; sense of place- Back Alleys Up Front; infrastructure, planning, and opportunity- Cities Elapsed; on time-lapse urbanity- Fall Reading; a few good recent books- Narrative Potential; the "Eco-house of the Future"- All Grown Up; gentrification, development, and New York- The Relevance of Content; brand architecture- Container City; prefab place- Urban Pre-Planning; on qualitative, rather than quantitative, planning- No, Not Terror; "terroir"- You Are Where You Eat; consumption, globalization, environment, and place- Aerotropolis; transportation, development, and changing ideas of proximity- Redefining Property Values; socioeconomics, planning, and development - McLofts and Memory; architecture, real estate, and suburbia- Casually Flawless; brand, architecture, and the construction of lifestyle- Emerald Necklace South; landscape, urban design, identity, and revitalizati
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