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Tag Archives: Atlanta
Turning bold visions into reality
Kudos to Planning magazine for an insightful and interesting article in the January 2014 edition on the Atlanta BeltLine. Entitled, “Emerald Necklace, Southern Style,” author Alexander Garvin provides a terrific summary of this project by means of an excerpt from … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Advocacy, architecture, art, bicycling, bike sharing, Biking, books, branding, charities, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, fitness, fun, geography, government, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, Maps, nature, new urbanism, Passenger rail, pictures, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, recreation, revitalization, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, trails, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, volunteerism, walking, zoning
Tagged active transportation, Atlanta, BeltLine, biking, Blue Island, Cal-Sag Trail, cities, Cultural Trail, Dequindre Cut Greenway, Detroit, environment, fitness, geography, health, High Line, hiking, history, Indy, land use, maps, New York City, planning, rail, recreation, spatial design, trails, transportation, walking
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Mapping Atlanta’s train traffic
Got to admit that I had never seen this kind of map before stumbling across it recently. While common for streets and highways, I cannot recall an average daily train traffic map. It is a very useful and interesting map of Atlanta, Georgia … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, geography, government, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Passenger rail, planning, rail, spatial design, States, Statistics, technology, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Atlanta, cartography, commerce, freight tonnage, frieght, GDOT, geography, Georgia, land use, logistics, mapping, maps, rail, railroads, shipping, train tonnage, transportation
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World’s 25 busiest air travel “markets” in 2011
It is often heard that Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport is the busiest airport in the world. On an individual airport basis, that is correct. But when you calculate the total air passengers passing through each market (single airport or multiple-airport), … Continue reading
Posted in air travel, airports, Asia, China, cities, Communications, economic development, Europe, geography, infrastructure, land use, North America, placemaking, planning, South America, spatial design, States, Statistics, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel, UK, urban planning
Tagged air travel, airlines, airports, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangkok, Beijing, Chicago, cities, Dallas, Denver, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Jakarta, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Moscow, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, statistics, Tokyo, tourism, transportation, Washington
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