David Sucher is the author of "City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village." From his Seattle home, David also runs theÊCity Comforts Blog, where he is attempting to foster a new perspective on architecture, the 'new urbanism,' historic preservation, urban design, land use law, landscape, and transport from what he calls a mildly libertarian stance.

Dave Norton is a leading thinker in experiential marketing and delivery. From Web sites to hotel cleaning carts to entire private islands, he's guided clients of Yamamoto Moss through the essentials of staging brand experiences for customers. With Joe Pine & Jim Gilmore, authors of "The Experience Economy," he has developed something called "The Experience Audit."

He and architect Greg Beck are staging their own experience in Austin February 26-27, It's called theÊ