New Rule: Developers/Architects are now banned from using the word 'vibrant'.
It's their favorite buzzword, and in its' overuse has become benign and obnoxious. Like if they throw it in there enough, people will flock to their development, sell their cars, and ride some restored 1920's streetcar to their jobs at a internet startup in a similarly 'vibrant' former warehouse.
Corillary to the above rule: repeating something does not make it so.
It's like those people who repeatedly edit SA's wikipedia page to include nicknames for neighborhoods/areas of town that no one has 1) ever heard of by that name before and 2) couldn't agree on an exact geographic location (example: uptown SA). Good rule of thumb: If you coined the nickname, or know the person who did, it's not a real nickname. Geographic nicknames, like 'vibrant' urban areas, are organic in nature, and not forced.
Finally, we can all agree that the acronym/abbreviation thing for a neighborhood is cool. SoHo, NoHo, NoLIta, TriBeCa, etc. But that's NYC's thing. Why do we (and other cities) seem compelled to believe that a 'vibrant' area is only really 'vibrant' if it has a New York style sounding name? The especially ironic part is that most NYC neighborhoods aren't acronyms. So what gives? To me sounds like some dudes trying too hard to be cool.
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"We marched five leagues over a fine country with broad plains, the most beautiful in all of New Spain. We camped on the banks of an arroyo. This I called San Antonio de Padua, because we reached it on the day of his festival." - General Domingo Teran de los Rios, June 13, 1691, in a letter to the King of Spain on the occasion of the founding of San Antonio.
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