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About Brand Avenue

Brand Avenue is a blog about places in the process of becoming.

It's a venue to explore ideas of place, space and identity--via architecture, planning, urban design, marketing, and urban development.

It's written by Chris Timmerman in Providence, Rhode Island. I'm an architect, facilities consultant, and freelance writer. I've been writing Brand Avenue since February 2005.

The views expressed here are solely my own, and not those of any current or past employers, with whom this site is not affiliated.

Brand Avenue was featured in the August 2008 issue of Architect Magazine, here.

Brand Avenue is on Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious, too.

Finally, here's a list of over 100 places across North America and elsewhere that inspired the early development of Brand Avenue.

Recent Posts

  • You Can't Send Places As Attachments
  • To Survive in Rochester
  • "Coffeeshopification"
  • The South Beckons
  • Even Better than the Real Thing
  • The Power of Love
  • What Stanford Loses
  • A Vision of IKEA Urbanism
  • Portland, The Gradual City
  • An Urban Heart for the Oil Sands

Archives

  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011

More...

Currently Reading

  • Peter Kageyama: For the Love of Cities

    Peter Kageyama: For the Love of Cities

  • John D. Kasarda: Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next

    John D. Kasarda: Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next

  • Jonathan Raban: Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life

    Jonathan Raban: Soft City: A Documentary Exploration of Metropolitan Life

  • M. Jeffrey Hardwick: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream

    M. Jeffrey Hardwick: Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream

  • Alex Kotlowitz: Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)

    Alex Kotlowitz: Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)

Etcetera


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