OUR paradigm for a dying city is Detroit.
This is the same man who, it is said, provided the paradigm for a generation of swaggering, insouciant Britpoppers.
"It will definitely be a new paradigm for a kind of hotel-museum community," Ms. Rubell said.
But General Growth Properties, a mall developer based in Chicago, believes the old paradigm for a mall can be transformed further.
DaimlerChrysler, the $150 billion company hailed two years ago as a new paradigm for a global car company, threatens to become a synonym for corporate disaster.
It's not just that the music has changed: the new paradigm for a successful musician demands constant interaction with fans and artfully choreographed press campaigns to produce saturation coverage around record releases and tours.
With grade-A songs by Frank Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows (who officially shares credit with Jo Swerling), this 1950 classic is widely regarded as the paradigm for a well-made musical comedy.
The attacking blueprint Germany adopted under Klinsmann and Löw at their home World Cup in 2006 has become the new paradigm for a team who were once a byword for cautious pragmatism.
As Jonathan Lethem, an admirer, recently put it, he is "the perfect example of the kind of writer we're defiantly hopeful not to suffer in our midst anymore... the paradigm for a novelist's willful abuse of his credibility with readers, and a White Elephant par excellence".
It's encouraging that Mr Friedman has settled on socioeconomic modernisation and the threat of global warming as the real challenges facing America today, but it would be especially nice if he could keep his attention focused on this paradigm for a little while.(Photo credit: AFP).
Contract-based design is an expressive paradigm for a modular and compositional specification of programs.
