Good news for landscape architects: your employment prospects are better than those of building architects and your work is appreciated more than ever - think of the High Line.
Entrepreneurial public-private partnerships and some deep-pocketed donors are pumping new life into New York and Philadelphia civic spaces - what about Boston?
Excitement has turned to disappointment in Minneapolis, and what's happening there should be a warning about safeguarding transparency in public process and civic debate.
If you think disco diva Cheryl Lynn is about to pop up and start singing "... to be real" everywhere you go, it's probably because the concept of authenticity is now almost ubiquitous.
