Someone asked me today: "On what criteria or data is used that would consider a city a second tier city versus a first tier city. I know that most of us seasoned planners know that when you say New York, San Francisco, Chicago, we think “first...

Thanks to David Shaw, I get to play a game that's been going around the blogosphere, where you have to post five things people probably don't know about you, then pass along the honor to five more bloggers. So, here are five things you likely don...

After reading this press release about how the DIY (for "Do It Yourself") Network is setting up a "blog cabin," where anyone can vote on design elements from countertops to fireplaces for an actual log cabin to be built in the Smokies, I thought...

If you include any graphics in your meeting's marketing materials—and if you're not, why aren't you?—this periodic table of graphical styles is a terrific tool to goose your creativity and bring dull old text to life. ...