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Can Fake Downtowns Grow Organically … and Feel Authentic?
Maybe today's manufactured place experiences will morph somewhat organically -- or least evolve over time -- so they don't fee so fake anymore.
 • Bill Fulton
How Can We Recreate The Experience Of Small-Scale Downtowns?
There'll always be a Costco. But we still need civic and retail locations where we don't have to take a search-and-destroy approach.
 • Bill Fulton
Typing Alone And Bowling Together
Yes, we're screwing up our traditional Third Places by working in them. But maybe if we get together around our hobbies once again, we'll find a new…
 • Bill Fulton
Is The Third Place Dead?
We're working at home and in coffee shops, living in our workplaces, and even trying to play ping-pong at the office. But we still need to escape to…
 • Bill Fulton
Post-COVID Cities Are Different. Just Not The Way We Expected.
Both downtowns and retail in general haven't died. They just kind of morphed. The result is more polycentric cities, with retail focused more on…
 • Bill Fulton
Can Our Newest "New Cities" Learn From The Past?
"New cities" and "new towns" have regularly gone bankrupt because the developers overextended themselves. But these failures provide a lot of lessons…
 • Bill Fulton
Can Florida And Other Southern States Deal With Slower Population Growth?
When you've lived off population growth for a century, it can be hard to pivot.
 • Bill Fulton
The Future Of Where
The Future Of Where
Sometimes in the post-pandemic world, it seems like it doesn't matter "where" you are! In some ways that's true, but in other ways "place" matters more than ever. "The Future Of Where" explores the ways in which place and community still matter.
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