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- Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
- Dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn city/town names
- The worst failures of American urban planning
- Worlds largest “ton” suffix cities
- Iconic ironmaking furnace stacks of stone
- Once roaring iron furnace or iron forge named towns
- Tuesday tunes: Male solo artists who belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
- Favorite historic trails to hike or bike
- Tuesday Tunes: Women who Belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
- Working list – America’s tallest and grandest mesas
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Category Archives: geography
Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
In many post-industrial American cities, the legacy of their manufacturing might is too often gradually rusting away or being erased from memory in the hopes that new developments will somehow rekindle a once proud past. As a result, significant aspects … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, cities, civics, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, industry, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, rail, Railroads, recreation, revitalization, rivers/watersheds, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban design, walking
Tagged adaptive reuse, Bethlehem, Birmingham, cities, Gas Works Park, indiustry, industrial archaeology, Marquette, Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Ore Dock Boteco Center, Scranton, Seattle, Slodd Furnaces, Steamtown, Steel Stacks
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Dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn city/town names
Below are city and town names that reflect the dawn, midday, dusk, nighttime, and back again. In a number of cases, the dawn and dusk names match up geographically and logically with their names. These are noted with explanations. Not … Continue reading
The worst failures of American urban planning
This post looks at macro-scale urban planning failures to identify what this retired planner believes are/were the worst blunders that have taken place in American urban planning, as a profession. Keep in mind that urban planning includes a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, architecture, Bus transportation, cities, civics, Civil Rights, commerce, culture, demographics, density, diversity, downtown, economic development, environment, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, injustice, land use, placemaking, planning, racism, rail, rivers/watersheds, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, Taxes, traffic, transit, transportation, urban design, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged building codes, Euclidean zoning, form-based code, freeway, low-density zoning, minorities, sameness, sprawl, transit, urban planning, urban renewal
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Worlds largest “ton” suffix cities
The following list identifies those cities and town whose name includes the suffix of “ton.” “Ton” is often used as a shortened version of “town.” Based on this list, the most common versions of “ton” are Kingston (4), Hamilton (4), … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Canada, cities, culture, Europe, fun, geography, history, Language, North America, Oceania, place names, States, Statistics, toponymy, UK
Tagged cities, geography, language, place names, population, statistics, toponymy
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Iconic ironmaking furnace stacks of stone
The following list and accompanying photographs identify those iconic ironmaking blast furnace stacks that remain standing in the United States. Most of these monumental structures were built between the 1770s and 1880s. The quality of their construction (mostly with a … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, art, business, cities, commerce, economic development, geography, Geology, historic preservation, history, industry, infrastructure, Labor, land use, Maps, Mining, place names, placemaking, product design, revitalization, topography, toponymy, tourism, Trade, Travel
Tagged blast furnace, bloomery, industry, iron, iron furnaces, smelters, stacks, stone stacks
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Once roaring iron furnace or iron forge named towns
The following list identifies villages, hamlets, and communities named for local iron furnaces and forges that operated during the 18th and 19th centuries. There were a number of other furnaces and forges, but their either wasn’t an adjacent community or … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, cities, commerce, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, place names, planning, Statistics, topography, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged Bessemer process, forges, furnaces, history, industry, iron, iron furnaces, iron ore
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Favorite historic trails to hike or bike
Presented below are my eleven favorite “historic” hiking and biking trails that have been visited thus far in the United States. The Iron Ore Heritage Trail in Marquette County, Michigan is my personal favorite, though each of these trails are … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, archaeology, art, bicycling, Biking, cities, culture, fun, geography, Geology, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, recreation, revitalization, third places, topography, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, water trails
Tagged biking, canals, heritage trails, hiking, historic trails, history, missions, trails, walking
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Working list – America’s tallest and grandest mesas
The following is a working list that will be updated from time to time until complete. Those mesas shown in bold are the tallest in that state. Most data remaining to be added are from Arizona and New Mexico. Mesa … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, environment, geography, Geology, Native Americans, nature, recreation, Statistics, topography, trails, Travel, Wildlife
Tagged flat tops, geography, geology, mesas, table mountains, terrain, topography
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The death and rebirth of our once burning rivers
If you were of child of the 1960s like me, you probably remember the news accounts about the Cuyahoga River catching fire in Cleveland. Amazingly, that was one of more than a dozen fires that erupted on the Cuyahoga due … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, art, Biking, China, cities, downtown, economic development, environment, geography, Great Lakes, health, historic preservation, history, India, infrastructure, land use, Maps, nature, placemaking, planning, pollution, revitalization, rivers/watersheds, Russia, shipping, sustainability, third places, topography, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, water trails, zoning
Tagged Buffalo River, burning rivers, Chicago River, Cuyahoga River, Flint River, Lincoln Creek, Passaic River, pollution, restoration, River Rouge, rivers, rivers that caught fire, Schuylkill River, streams, watersheds, waterways
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American core cities that escaped freeway devastation
The following list identifies those core cities in the United States that have not been devastated by freeway construction (to date), and particularly during the interstate highway building-boom of the 1950s-1970s. While many of America’s “then largest” cities saw downtown … Continue reading
Posted in Cars, cities, culture, downtown, economic development, Economy, environment, geography, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, planning, poverty, racism, spatial design, sprawl, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning
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