The writing of a visual thinker is difficult to revise, because you have to make so many guesses about the exact meaning and the relationship between statements. But here is the way a verbal thinker might have written the above passage. With the Regency Hyatt, John Portman not only helped revitalize a decaying downtown, he set a new standard for hotel design. Hotels with these features, built by Portman and his followers, now dominate the skylines of old downtowns around the country. Portman emphasizes that the interior should be designed as a space where people can prosper, relax, or enjoy themselves.
Good prose is verbal theater which the reader interprets and enacts.
The first example below shows how a good writer dramatizes a point. When the topic of licensing interior designers comes up, the architect bristles for fear that he won't be allowed to design interior spaces any longer. This simply isn't true. Unlike oral thinkers, visual writers have difficulty converting their thoughts into narratives. They tend to string thoughts together without any particular order.