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- “Here comes the sun”…cities
- My Amazon HQ2 prediction
- Since when are fire trucks incapable of backing up?
- “Bigotsburg of the week” – Forrest City, Arkansas
- Bigotsburg of the week – Shreveport, Louisiana
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Category Archives: education
People can be so disgusting!
A recent report by the Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore highlights how disgusting humans can be, even when visiting a national park. The report identifies the extent and content of litter collected from beaches in the park this past summer … Continue reading
Posted in civics, civility, education, environment, geography, health, infrastructure, land use, peace, placemaking, planning, pollution, recreation, Statistics, topography, tourism, Travel
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My Amazon HQ2 prediction
Ever since Amazon announced they would be establishing a dual headwaters, a virtual cottage industry of predictions and analyses has developed. Everyone has an opinion on what metro will be selected. Here are my thoughts on the subject: My heart would … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, airports, Biking, branding, Bus transportation, business, Canada, Cities, civics, Climate Change, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, economic development, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Environment, fun, futurism, geography, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, logistics, marketing, North America, placemaking, planning, recreation, revitalization, shopping, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, sustainability, traffic, transit, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban planning
Tagged Amazon, Amazon HQ2
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“Bigotsburgs of the week” – three cities with the most Confederate monuments
Given the ongoing battles over removal of Confederate monuments, statues, and similar memorials, a review was conducted through wikipedia.org of how those symbols are geographically dispersed across the country. This research shows that the city with the most still displayed … Continue reading
Posted in cities, culture, diversity, education, geography, history, human rights, inclusiveness, politics, racism, social equity
Tagged bigotry, Confederate, memorials, monuments, oppression, racism, statues
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“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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247 Smart cities and counting…
Above is a map of showing the 247 cities to date (as of 6/6/17) where the mayor has pledged their city will adhere to the Paris Climate Accord commitments on greenhouse gases. I am very proud to say our own … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative energy, branding, cities, climate change, culture, education, environment, geography, government, health, humanity, Maps, nature, planning, politics, pollution, Renewable Energy, States, sustainability, transportation, urban planning, weather
Tagged cities, climate change, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse gases, mayors, weather
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Applying my Quaker principles to urban planning
As a liberal Quaker and an urban planner, I am very intrigued by the interrelationship between these two significant aspects of my life. Back on November 6th of 2014, I summarized how the ten (10) principles of my regular yoga practice … Continue reading
Posted in charities, cities, civics, civility, Communications, culture, education, environment, health
Tagged beliefs, liberal Quaker, planning, Quaker universalist, religion, SPICES, values
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