Authors
-
problogic
- Indian cities with the most high-rise buildings
- Poets of the pavement – local places with Poet Laureates
- Grand movie palaces of Northern Michigan
- 4/5th’s of Fleetwood Mac are infinitely better than most musicians
- A physical Brexit with Iberian flair
- Regional place names that sound like names of nations
- States/Provinces with the most carousels
- Catchy and clever food truck names
- “Pierless” Piers: Longest Public Piers in the USA
- 247 Smart cities and counting…
-
Tag Archives: Barcelona
The Venice Effect: Destination cities imperiled by mass tourism
Mass tourism can be roughly defined as thousands of people going to the same destination, often at the same time of the year, and often arriving in large, consecutive human waves. Examples of these human waves of tourism include, but … Continue reading →
Posted in adaptive reuse, air travel, art, aviation, book reviews, books, branding, cities, civics, civility, commerce, consumerism, culture, demographics, density, diversity, downtown, economic development, entertainment, environment, gentrification, geography, globalization, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, placemaking, planning, recreation, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
|
Tagged Bar Harbor, Barcelona, cruise ships, Dubrovnik, Italy, Ketchikan, Lisbon, mass tourism, Phuket, travel, Traverse City, Venice
|
3 Comments
Great seaports from space – Southern Europe
For part two of this series, here are satellite images of seven great seaports of Southern Europe – Barcelona, Spain; Cadiz, Spain; Constanta, Romania; Genoa, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey; Marseilles, France; and Piraeus, Greece. The harbours almost resemble jagged teeth of … Continue reading →
Posted in aerospace, cities, commerce, economic development, Europe, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, Outer Space, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, spatial design, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning
|
Tagged Barcelona, Cadiz, Constanta, design, freight, Genoa, harbors, harbours, Istanbul, land use, Marseilles, Piraeus, planning, ports, seaports, shipping, transportation, travel, urban planning
|
Leave a comment
Spectacular airport control towers – new and old
For architects and designers alike, form and function play and important role in building design. Airport control towers should be no different. As they often are the first distant sign from ground level of an approaching airport, control towers help … Continue reading →
Posted in Active transportation, Africa, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, art, Asia, cities, Cuisine, culture, economic development, Europe, geography, infrastructure, land use, North America, Oceania, placemaking, planning, product design, skylines, technology, transportation, Travel, UK
|
Tagged Abu dhabi, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, art, Bahrain, Barcelona, Beijing, Bilbao, columbus, control towers, Dayton, Dubai, Edinburgh, Edmonton, Farnsborough, Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Houston, land use, LAX, Mumbai, Orlando, planning, San Francisco, Sydney, transportation, Vienna
|
3 Comments
The birth of new nations?
Came across this story on the BBC about 1.5 million Catalonians marching on the streets of Barcelona back on September 11th in support of the region’s independence from Spain. I predicted that both Catalonia and the Basque regions will seek and … Continue reading →
Posted in civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, economics, Economy, Europe, geography, government, history, humanity, inclusiveness, peace, politics, psychology
|
Tagged Barcelona, Basque, Catalonia, economy, independence, news, politics, Spain
|
6 Comments
