Obsession with the failure of place unleashes a parade of Underpants Gnomes at Pacific Standard magazine.
Theme: Economic development folklore of talent migration.
Subject Article: "Creative Placemaking Has an Outcomes Problem."
Other Links: 1. "Gnomes Know Business."
2. "Underpants Gnomes And Talent Migration."
Postscript: Economic developers and planners are working the wrong end of talent migration. It's all push factors, brain drain. Suburban dreams get labeled, "white flight." Migration is more pull than push. A better place won't solve much of anything. I heard it loud and clear at the IEDC annual conference. Places develop, not people.
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