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- Since when are fire trucks incapable of backing up?
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- North American high-rise construction crane boomtowns
- Russian cities that arose from the Gulag era
- “Bigotsburgs of the week” – three cities with the most Confederate monuments
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- Reestablishing “true community”
- Indian cities with the most high-rise buildings
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Category Archives: globalization
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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A physical Brexit with Iberian flair
Imagine, if you will, a place known as Iberia, a peninsula consisting of two great nations (Portugal and Spain). One day, for no apparent reason or cause, this geographic feature abruptly adopts a mind and a course of its own … Continue reading
Posted in art, book reviews, books, entertainment, Europe, geography, Geology, globalization, government, history, humanity, literature, Maps, politics, topography, Travel, writing
Tagged authors, books, dystopian, Iberian Peninsula, Jose Saramago, Portugal, Spain, The Stone Raft
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Is there a student housing bubble and is it about to burst?
For many collegiate cities and towns across the United States, the steady influx of international students (and often with their families), from primarily China/Asia, have lifted the local real estate markets out of the post-2008 doldrums. The concern now becomes … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, cities, colleges, culture, demographics, diversity, economic development, education, geography, globalization, Housing, humanity, immigration, land use, marketing, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, Statistics, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Asia, China, cities, colleges, education, housing, housing bubble, land use, planning, real estate, residential, student housing, students, universities, zoning
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World’s busiest single-runway commercial airports – UPDATED
Every once in a while when you cannot find a list or comparison on the internet, it is time to find the individual data sources and create the comparison database yourself. First it was the tallest airport control towers, then … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, aerospace, Africa, air travel, airport planning, airports, Asia, aviation, China, cities, commerce, economic development, Europe, geography, globalization, history, India, infrastructure, land use, logistics, North America, planning, South America, Statistics, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, UK, urban planning
Tagged aerospace, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, land use, planning, statistics, tourism, transportation, travel
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America’s busiest container ports in 2014
Interesting data provided in the chart below. Despite a labor strike in 2014, Los Angeles and Long Beach continued to the lead the way as the busiest container ports in the United States based on twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). the … Continue reading
Posted in cities, commerce, economic development, economics, Economy, geography, globalization, history, infrastructure, Labor, land use, logistics, planning, Railroads, rivers/watersheds, shipping, Statistics, transportation, Travel
Tagged cities, commerce, container ports, freight, geography, harbors, intermodal, logistics, ports, shipping, transportation
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