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You get off the bus relaxed and ready for a sunny new day-no traffic headaches for you. You walk down your well-maintained city street and wave to your dry cleaner and to the corner grocer sweeping up out front.  You see birds, trees, storefronts, people. You notice a sign in a window: the arts collective is staging an event.  Maybe you'll check it out on your way home. You enter your office, open the windows, make the coffee, and start your productive and creative day.  Welcome to work, neighborhood-style.
 


 

At the core is the city.  The human habitat where markets collide, where art and culture are made and celebrated, where we, the people, have made democracy work.  The city is the place worth remembering, where we record ourselves in the process of making history.  Where we have known ourselves.

And we believe these urban places not only have a future but are our future.  Not a symbol but a living determination of who we are as a people.  An urban place is a great work place because the energy hums in from the street, it pulses through each conversation at conference tables and water coolers, it tracks you down and holds sway so that the new idea goes from the tip of your tongue straight back to the street that promised it in the first place.

For those that get it you know.  There's really no other place to be.  Urban without apology.
 

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