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  1. What does Chattanooga mean to you? Tuesday, August 14, 2007

    by Josh McManus

    A friend put me on to a public radio podcast about “big ideas” that came from the Aspen Institute in Colorado - 5 minute idea speeches from around the world.

    The final speech was from the Founder of the Project for Public Spaces, who sent 30,000+ people the question “What does ‘place-making’ mean to you?” One of the many replies said “Place-making is the act of liberation, of staking claim, of beautification; it is true human empowerment”, and quoted Thoreau:

    There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

    Posted by Administrator in Culture