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- 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
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Category Archives: peace
Happy 100th Birthday to the National Park Service!
The National Park Service is easily my favorite federal agency and the one that deserves so much more funding than Congress has been willing to give in recent years. If I were able to be transported back to the threshold … Continue reading
Posted in civics, environment, fun, geography, Geology, government, hiking, historic preservation, history, land use, nature, peace, recreation, sustainability, topography, tourism, Travel
Tagged centennial, Katahdin Woods and Waters, National Park Service
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The “not-so good” war
Often, as Americans we are told that World War II was “the good war.” But, is that really the case or is it just an example of the victors writing history to serve their needs? No one is disputing that … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, book reviews, books, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, entertainment, geography, government, historic preservation, history, human rights, humanity, literature, military, peace, politics, racism, social equity, writing
Tagged Lowell Naeve, World War II
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Building a peaceful community with good planning
Building a peaceful community does not just result from how we treat one another (see previous post), but can be literally develop based on how we design our communities and allocate funding. The days of the “wrong side of the … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Advocacy, airports, Alternative transportation, architecture, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, civility, climate change, commerce, culture, diversity, economic development, environment, gentrification, geography, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, Love, new urbanism, peace, placemaking, planning, pollution, poverty, rail, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, third places, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged community, diversity, inclusiveness, love, peace, people
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Ten ways urban planners can promote a peaceful community
To a certain extent these are common sense approaches to maintaining peace during the planning process, but considering the extent of rancor and divisiveness in our nation and around the world, I thought they would be useful. They are presented in no … Continue reading
Posted in cities, civics, civility, humanity, inclusiveness, peace, planning, social equity, urban planning
Tagged equality, participation
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Kerouac’s eloquence in “The Dharma Bums”
I love reading books penned by Jack Kerouac. Somehow, his freewheeling eloquence with the written word just lifts imagery and wisdom right off the page and into your soul’s deepest crevasses. Earlier today I finished reading The Dharma Bums and … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, art, Asia, book reviews, books, civics, Communications, culture, entertainment, environment, geography, hiking, homelessness, humanity, literature, nature, peace, politics, tourism, trails, Travel, walking
Tagged books, inspiration, Jack Kerouac, novels, The Dharma Bums, wisdom
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Visions of Jack…Kerouac
We spent Saturday in Lowell, Massachusetts and among the places visited were sites related to and honoring the “King of the Beats,” Jack Kerouac.
Posted in art, books, Communications, culture, historic preservation, history, literature, peace, writing
Tagged Jack Kerouac, Lowell, writers
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