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Resource Question(s): WHAT IS CREATIVE PLACEMAKING?

OUR TOWNS: A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA
In the summer of 2013, James & Deb Fallows began a project to visit smaller towns around the country—places that show up in the news usually only as backdrops for national-politics coverage, or when some human or natural disaster has struck—and to report on how schools, businesses, families, and civic life were faring “out there.” The guiding principle of this reporting was developed through years of travel. The central premise is that the most positive and practical developments in this stage of American life are happening at the local and regional level—but that most Americans have barely heard of those developments except in the communities where they themselves live. That is the theme they hope to explore here.