Cities: Be Who You Are — Only Better | Rust Wire

This article (click title for link) is from an on-line magazine that focuses on redevelopment in the industrial Mid-west.  It is authored by Dan Gilmartin who is CEO of the Michigan Municipal League.  He is talking about traveling and seeing all the wonderful aspects of other places, but realizing that sometimes the notion of transplanting what is successful elsewhere, to your community, may not be the best idea.  I thoroughly agree with his thesis.  Locally, many times people are caught saying "Lake Worth can be like Delray Beach someday."  No, we really can't and don't want to - but we can become a better Lake Worth.