(This article was published in Public Sector Digest, January, 2012) Many communities in Ontario and across Canada have started to bring post-secondary institutions into the economic mix of their downtown areas. Often, this is a single department or school, perhaps a
(This article was originally published in Plan Canada, Summer 2011.) Summary: Brantford, Ontario experienced an economic crisis which damaged its downtown. This article explains how downtown Brantford has reinvented itself as a creative economy as promoted in the report 'Ontario in