Empowering Places

Welcome to the new monthly Empowering Places newsletter, crafted by Resonance and read by 15,000 placemaking professionals like you.

On the first Tuesday of every month, we share email inspiration and insight from our global team to help you empower destinations, cities and communities. Thank you for being a part of our community and subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss it in your inbox.

WATCH THIS!?

WRLDCTY 2023 sessions are up on?our Youtube channel

Last month, Resonance gathered hundreds of urban leaders in New York and 3,000+ virtual participants for our fourth annual edition of WRLDCTY – The Global Forum for Urban Innovation. Check out some of the highlight sessions on our YouTube channel, including?this must-watchabout the future of commercial real estate with RXR Realty’s?Scott Rechler and Resonance President & CEO Chris Fair.

THOUGHT READER

Why community wellbeing is your city’s next critical metric?

Forward-looking destination marketing and economic development organizations are not just measuring the wealth created by their activities, but how their efforts affect the wellbeing of their local communities as well. Are you?

RESONANCE NEWS?

Resonance is at?City Nation Place in London next week (and we’re up for place-brand awards!)

The Resonance team travels to the?City Nation Place Global?conference in London next week to present the “Who Gets to Manage Your Place Brand”?session, as well as attend the Place Brand Awards, for which we’re nominated twice. Check out?our Brand Brussels film in the “Place Brand of the Year” category (and explore our nominated work for Christchurch, below).

PLACE STUDY

Otautahi Christchurch: Engaging community to help a New Zealand city look boldly ahead

Eleven years after its devastating earthquake, Resonance helped Christchurch with new positioning, identity?and brand narrative to craft a new global story.

SENSES OF PLACE

What’s inspiring our?craft this month

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What Millennials, Gen Z, Gen X and Baby Boomers Tell Us About Travel in the Year Ahead

Hilton’s latest annual trends report is one of many prognostications about the murky year ahead for tourism and hospitality. But it stands out for its authority and exhaustive, generation-focused insights.?Read now.

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Welcome to Wrexham?

The new season of this absurdly ambitious docuseries about a Wales football club (third-oldest on the planet) being purchased an reinvigorated by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhennyey is just as much about community empowerment and stewardship of place as it is the beautiful game. Small wonder it's up for six Emmy Awards.?Watch now.

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Urban Planning is Not Boring Podcast?

L.A.-based transportation planners Samantha Ellman and Natalie Ikhrata (and guests) dive into urban planning issues ranging from climate change mitigation to affordable housing and talk through it in a clear, actionable way that makes their nearly 50 episode to date fly by.?Listen now.