The fourth component of the architecture of community refers to connections between places as expressed through the flow of people, capital and information. We see these connections clearly in the notion of bridging social capital and high value civic institutions, and they are a logical consequence of the ways in which quality public assets create consumer and investor demand. Understanding regional connections has become important to policy analysts concerned with economically distressed communities. Place-making restores or creates links between local, city and regional markets, making places both attractors and incubators for people, capital and ideas. Isolation reinforces poverty and a.
