This morning the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau, launched its new brand for visitRaleigh. The new logo is designed to represent the geographic area our city occupies. The squares represent both attributes of the area, like growth, digital culture, and access to the environment as well as the 12 municipalities within Wake County. The star, of course, represents the capital at the heart of the city.
See details on the visitRaleigh Logo Design below the fold
The State of Things features D.R. Bryan talking about new urbanism in the context of old communities in the triangles rapid growth. Listen Here.
A favorite radio show of mine- Radio Lab - has a great audio adventure recounting how a mall changed an anonymous city.
“City X” is a history of the modern shopping mall through perspectives of people living in a real, yet unnamed, city. Using a sound rich audio mosaic of observations and ruminations, all scored to Muzak, the universal mall experience comes to life, for better or for worse.
Good Night Raleigh has an excellent post on the Raleigh Underground, a late seventies, early eighties Rock club in Cameron Village, underneath where Fresh Market now sits.
The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously today to grant an extension to Greg Hatem for the Lafayette. Hatem has not met deadlines required for the project. City Manager Russell Allen stated before the Council that Hatem does not have financing and does not know when he can get financing, “We would be best served if we put out and RFP.” More...
