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Category Archives: shopping
Walkable placemaking with outdoor public stairways
Note: – For purposes of this blogpost, stairways, stairs, and stair-steps are used interchangeably. Post updated 2/16/23 _______ The first time it occurred to me that outdoor stairways could be an important walkability tool for cities was while visiting Edinburgh, … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative transportation, archaeology, architecture, art, book reviews, books, branding, brewpubs, business, cities, civics, coffee shops/cafes, commerce, culture, demographics, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, engineering, entertainment, environment, fitness, fun, geography, government, health, Health care, hiking, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, literature, logistics, Maps, Mining, mountains, natural history, nature, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, recreation, revitalization, shopping, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Stairway networks, Statistics, sustainability, third places, topography, tourism, traffic, trails, transit, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, walking, writing
Tagged Bisbee 1000, cities, environment, fun, geography, history, IceMan Climb Competition, land use, planning, recreational stairways, stair-steps, staircases, Stairizona Trail, stairs, stairways, steps, transportation, travel, walkability, walkable
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Cities/suburbs should replan street networks for low-speed electric vehicles
As the electric vehicle revolution expands around the globe, one factor that cities and suburbs need to start accounting for is the increased adoption of low-speed electric vehicles for personal and transit use. Whether you refer to them as low-speed … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Alternative transportation, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, consumerism, density, downtown, electric vehicles, engineering, environment, EVs and hybrids, fun, geography, health, highways, history, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, logistics, new urbanism, parking, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, product design, revitalization, shopping, solar, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, technology, Trade, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged cities, electric vehicles, EVs, low-speed electric vehicles, LSVs, neighborhood electric vehicles, NEVs, suburbs, tiny cars, transportation, transportation planning
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Place Name Hall of Fame: Distinctly recognizable town/small and mid-sized city names
The following list identifies those towns/small cities that have distinctly recognizable names — ones that are well-known enough that most people would have immediately have a mental image of it if the place was mentioned in conversation or literature, even … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, Canada, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, Cuisine, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, fun, geography, Geology, hiking, historic preservation, history, inclusiveness, land use, marketing, Mexico, music, Native Americans, natural history, nature, North America, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, recreation, scenic byways, shopping, spatial design, sustainability, third places, topography, toponymy, tourism, Trade, trails, Travel, urban design, urban planning
Tagged advertising, branding, distinctiveness, history, innovation, marketing, place names, placenames, planning, tourism, travel, uniqueness
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Strict planning & zoning destroys eclectic, offbeat, and funky
After three decades in the planning profession and several more years since retirement, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you want your community to maintain or build a funky, hip, offbeat, or eccentric vibe, it can not be done … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, Advocacy, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, cities, civics, commerce, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, demographics, deregulation, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, family, Food, fun, gentrification, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, marketing, Mining, opinion, pictures, placemaking, planning, poverty, product design, revitalization, shopping, signs, Small business, social equity, spatial design, third places, tourism, Travel, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, zoning
Tagged art, artistic, blight, cities, culture, eclectic, flair, fun, funky, neighborhoods, offbeat, planning, signs, style, towns, whimsy, zoning
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Madrid, NM – Coal mining ghost town to eclectic art colony
Among the many attractions within an hour’s drive of Albuquerque and Santa Fe is the former coal mining town of Madrid, New Mexico. Located in a rugged valley bounded by the Ortiz Mountains, the town had acquired the nickname of … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, cities, classic vehicles, commerce, Cuisine, culture, demographics, economic development, entertainment, environment, Environment, fun, geography, health, highways, historic preservation, history, Housing, industry, land use, marketing, Mining, nature, pictures, place names, placemaking, planning, pollution, recreation, revitalization, scenic byways, shopping, Small business, spatial design, sports, Statistics, topography, tourism, Trade, Travel, Uncategorized, urban planning, Women
Tagged art, coal, eclectic, environment, fun, history, Madrid, mining, New Mexico, tourism, travel
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Regional and semi-national fast food burger chains
Most of us are familiar with the national fast food burger chains like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Five Guys, Sonic, and Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. But, there are many local, regional, and semi-national burger chains that dot the map and … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, branding, cities, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, Food, food systems, fun, geography, history, land use, product design, shopping, Statistics, third places, tourism, traffic
Tagged burger joints, burgers, dining, drive-ins, fast food, restaurants
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The steaming hot market for drive-thru coffee shops
Across the country there is an ongoing boom in freestanding drive-thru/walk-up coffee shops. These units rarely, if ever, incorporate indoor seating, though they may have some outdoor seats. Instead these shops are designed and meant for customers on the go … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, bicycling, branding, business, Cars, Cities, coffee shops/cafes, commerce, consumerism, Cuisine, economic development, food systems, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, marketing, placemaking, planning, product design, shopping, spatial design, Statistics, third places, traffic, Transportation, Uncategorized, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged BCubed, Biggby, cafes, coffee, coffee shops, double drive-thru, drive-throughs, drive-thru, Dutch Bros., food, freestanding, modular, planning, prefabricated construction, restaurants, Scooters, zoning
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Geographical distribution of motor vehicle model names
Back in the day, its seemed many motor vehicles with geographical model names tended to be of places east of the Mississippi, wealthy places, or of European locales. But, today, the largest number of referenced places and geography model names … Continue reading
Posted in branding, business, Cars, cities, commerce, culture, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, pictures, place names, product design, shopping, Statistics, topography, toponymy, transportation
Tagged automobiles, autos, cars, geography, model names, motor vehicles, nameplates, SUVs, trends, trucks, vehicles
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Viva historic preservation in the “True Las Vegas”
We recently spent part of a day wandering about downtown Las Vegas, New Mexico and came away very impressed by the preserved historical and cultural assets of this High Plains city. Unlike the overwhelming glitter and gaudiness found in Nevada, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, branding, business, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Cuisine, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Food, fun, geography, government, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, libraries, Maps, pictures, placemaking, planning, revitalization, shopping, Small business, spatial design, Statistics, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, Travel, urban design, urban planning, zoning
Tagged adaptive reuse, culture, High Plains, historic preservation, history, Las Vegas, New Mexico, New Mexico True, Old Town Plaza, Old West, Viva Las Vegas!
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Geography of Chewy.com’s fulfillment centers
The table included in this post lists the current and future fulfillment centers developed by Chewy.com, an e-commerce pet products company. As is clearly evident, there has been a rapid expansion of fulfillment centers since 2014. Pennsylvania has seen the … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, branding, business, cities, commerce, consumerism, distribution, ecommerce, economic development, Food, geography, health, Health care, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, marketing, Pets, planning, shipping, shopping, spatial design, Statistics, technology, Trade, transportation, trucking, urban planning
Tagged Chewy, Chewy.com, distribution, ecommerce, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, logistics, pets, shopping
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