Downtown Celebration

The city is the cauldron of culture, chance meetings, business, wealth, poverty and pleasure. But it is this energy of great cities that makes them so intoxicating.

When Liverpool is alive, there's no place like it in Europe. These pages are about Mardi Gras, they are about downtown CELEBRATION.

This growing section of the site is about the small things that make big cities.. and the initiatives DL and others are undertaking to celebrate this.

Incubating Tech	Kevin Kipp, Bubble Communications St. Louis What is downtowns USP? An interesting article that highlights the opportunities for downtown revival and also raises some of the dangers of only looking at mainstream ...they just go to the business park!	link
'Growth of Latte Towns'	Mary Jo Waits, Morrison Institute of Public Policy at Arizona State University	link
'Flanifesto'	Lawrence Levi, Brooklyn, Editor of the online magazine dedicated to the urban meanderer.	link
'City Comforts'	This great little book shows examples of small things — City Comforts — that make urban life pleasant: places where people can meet, methods to tame cars and to make buildings good neighbors, art that infuses personality into locations and makes them into places. Many of these small details are so obvious as to be invisible. Go and buy a copy!	link
urbanphoto.net	a great site from Canada, with fantastic pictures of downtowns in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto - now with contibutions from across the world.	link