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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: Maps
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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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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Participant cities in AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly Network
Below is a list of the hundreds of communities across the nation participating in AARP’s age-friendly livable communities program. With America’s rapidly aging population, it is surprising that more communities have not joined, given the relatively easy process for … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, culture, geography, health, Health care, history, Housing, humanity, land use, Maps, planning, social equity, Statistics, sustainability, third places, transportation, walking, Women
Tagged AARP, aging in place, retirement, seniors
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Our quest for the “Metropolis” under East Bay waters
Since moving to Michigan 27 years ago, I have been intrigued by the history and lore of the Great Lakes. This includes the lighthouses, sand dunes, ore docks, freighters, bridges, geology, and many other facets of this vast waterborne … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, culture, fun, geography, Great Lakes, historic preservation, history, Maps, nature, North America, pictures, recreation, shipping, shipwrecks, technology, topography, tourism, transportation, Travel, water trails
Tagged archaeology, East Bay, Grand Traverse Bay, Great Lakes, historic preservation, kayak, Lake Michigan, maritime, Metropolis, Michigan, nautical, Old Mission Peninsula, Peck & Masters Shipyard, schooners, shipwrecks, two-masted lake schooners, underwater preserves, zodiac
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Favorite names of mesas in America’s Old West
There are certain names and terms that conjour up images of places. In the vast, rugged, and lovely landscapes of the American West, mesas are one of the most iconic topographic and geologic features. While in the process of … Continue reading
Posted in fun, geography, Geology, hiking, historic preservation, history, Maps, Native Americans, nature, place names, recreation, topography, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged American West, geography, geology, mesas, Old West, terrain, topography
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World’s largest “stad” and “sted” suffix cities
“Stad” and “sted” have similar meanings of city, town, or place. “Sted” is only found in use in Denmark, while “stad” can be found in the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Aruba, and Curacao. Aruba, Curacao, and South Africa are/were … Continue reading
Toasting the States with the most wineries in 2020 vs. 2018
As the data shows in the following chart, among the states with the most wineries, Colorado and Texas lead the way in the number of new wineries added over the past two (2) years. All 12 states saw growth in … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, art, branding, cities, commerce, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, economic gardening, environment, food systems, fun, geography, Geology, historic preservation, history, land use, Maps, placemaking, planning, Small business, States, Statistics, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, Travel
Tagged vineyards, wine, wineries
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Two ideologies, two plutonium programs, and too reckless!
http:// (*see note at bottom of the post) The more read about the Cold War, the more I am convinced that both sides lost. Not only did both the Americans and Soviets/Russians gut large parts of their economies by wasting … Continue reading
Posted in atomic age, book reviews, books, cities, civics, culture, economic development, energy, environment, geography, government, health, Health care, history, humanity, infrastructure, injustice, land use, Maps, military, peace, place names, planning, politics, pollution, product design, rivers/watersheds, Russia, Science, social equity, Statistics, technology, urban planning
Tagged America, book reviews, books, Cold War, Hanford Site, Kate Brown, Mayak Nuclear Plant, Ozersk, plutonium, Plutopia, radiation, Richland, Russia, Soviet Union, USA
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Amazing and beautiful river bends from around the globe
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Posted in environment, geography, Geology, Maps, nature, pictures, rivers/watersheds, topography, transportation
Tagged river bends, rivers, waterways
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