Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown, is the story of a small North American town decaying and dying in the post-industrial revolution age, and how that downtown was reinvigorated by the creation of a downtown Brantford campus of Wilfred Leurier University. The introduction begins:

On June 7, 2008, the City of Brantford celebrated the death of its downtown. The funeral featured brightly coloured carriages, bicycles, and costumes . . . [R]epresentatives of the city, a new university campus, the arts community, and downtown churches blessed, eulogized, and toasted the old downtown. In a daring move the health authorities had approved the toast featuring untreated water taken from the Grand River two blocks away . . . The funeral celebrated the death, but also the rebirth of downtown Brantford.

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