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- “Bigotsburgs of the week” – three cities with the most Confederate monuments
- “Biogotsburg of the Week” – Gardendale, Alabama
- Reestablishing “true community”
- Indian cities with the most high-rise buildings
- Poets of the pavement – local places with Poet Laureates
- Grand movie palaces of Northern Michigan
- 4/5th’s of Fleetwood Mac are infinitely better than most musicians
- A physical Brexit with Iberian flair
- Regional place names that sound like names of nations
- States/Provinces with the most carousels
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Category Archives: Cities
“Biogotsburg of the Week” – Gardendale, Alabama
This week’s golden middle finger award goes to Gardendale, Alabama, a suburb north of Birmingham. Gardendale is the kind of place where if you don’t like the racial compostion of the school district, you simply create your own. Way to … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Cities, civility, culture, diversity, education, humanity, inclusiveness, racism, social equity
Tagged bigotry, diversity, equality, racism
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Reestablishing “true community”
In far too many aspects of our modern lives, there is no longer “true community,” as more and more people have physically and socially walled themselves off from one another through a variety of means. Physically, these may include dead-end … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Cities, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, education, family, geography, globalization, Housing, human rights, humanity, land use, politics, Privatization, social equity, Social media, spatial design
Tagged common good, commonism
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Indian cities with the most high-rise buildings
Listed below are the 20 cities in India with the most high-rise buildings as defined by emporis.com. If the city is a suburb, the core city is listed next to it in parenthesis. Also shown in parenthesis at the end … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Cities, downtown, geography, India, land use, planning, skylines, skyscrapers, urban planning
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This is why you want street trees
A picture says a thousand words – need I say more?
Posted in Advocacy, Cities, climate change, environment, infrastructure, land use, nature, pictures, placemaking, planning, spatial design, sustainability, tourism, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged street trees
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You know you live in a resort town when…
Now that I have lived in a resort town for a year, here are some additions/corrections to my original post from 8/8/13. Some of these are semi-sarcastic, while others are all too true. It’s a place people want to come … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, beer, branding, Cities, civics, commerce, culture, economic development, entertainment, fun
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Busiest resort town airports of the Intermountain West
Below is a list of the busiest resort town airports of the Intermountain West. Larger cities with more diversified economies are not included in this list. Resort towns for this region include cities at or near major national parks, recreation … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, Cities, commerce, geography, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel
Tagged airports, transportation, travel
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Cities once or still buried by volcanoes
Below is a list of cities that were once or still are buried beneath the ash, rocks, lava, and other debris from a volcanic eruption. As usual, any additions or corrections are most welcome. Armero, Colombia – destroyed in 1985 … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Environment, geography, Geology
Tagged history, volcanic eruptions, volcanoes
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