I have often compared asset mapping to baseball card collecting. Baseball cards contain only assets of each player and usually something unique about them. We all have those gifts, interests, skills and passions that make up our baseball cards. Our neighborhoo...

Urban acupuncture is intended to produce small-scale but socially catalytic interventions in the urban fabric. There are videos of large-scale, often funny interventions occurring in cities such as New York. I was part of an early morning High Five greeting as...

Last weekend, I went on a bike ride with some friends through the city visiting 4 local craft beer breweries. The number of people at each and the energy around this craft beer movement struck me. A couple of the breweries had very nice tasting rooms and anoth...