Trends: Suburbanization of cities

Via Archinect - only too true. The McBank referenced? That's the Commerce Bank in Park Slope you may have read about here a couple days ago.

People who don't understand places think is placemaking - mainly, creating centers via capitalistic commercial activities. Bill Witte, from The Related Company, said of his company's plans for the Grand Avenue project in Los Angeles, "This is place making," plans which include the Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil.

Expensive entertainment options is only place making - for corporate coffers.