December 18, 2009
  Rose Fellowship Immerses Young Architects in Community Design Activism
No other building type has surpassed affordable housing’s status as an architecture that speaks so directly to architects’ professional mission of social healing while often offering such disappointing results. Examples of public housing that are monolithic, overcrowded, scaless, and faceless are sadly common and occasionally infamous, like the Pruitt-Igoe projects in St. Louis and Cabrini Green in Chicago. 

Public Relations Tips to Help Develop Your Business
In 14 years in a newsroom and two decades providing public relations services, I’ve seen how publicity can help a firm develop its business. The trick is to be media savvy enough to earn valuable coverage in the publications that your customers and prospects rely on for useful news and perspectives. But, journalists get hundreds of story pitches a day and use only a few. How can your story make the cut? 

  

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