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- Tuesday Tunes: Surname band names of the rock era
- Ten planning lessons from astronomical research sites
- Tuesday Tunes: Out-of-this-world rock band names
- Riding the rails of interstellar discovery at the Very Large Array
- Majestic “mesa” cities and towns around the globe
- Canada’s next supergroup – A Short Walk to Pluto
- Two migration tales of strength, hardship, and tenacity
- An out-of-this-world visit to the Very Large Array (VLA)
- Albuquerque is a national leader in water conservation
- The buzz about America’s “bee-friendly” cities
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Tag Archives: Denver
Ten planning lessons from Colorado’s Front Range
Below is my list of ten planning lessons learned from multiple visits to Colorado’s Front Range in the past 18 months. Some are positive, some are not. They are presented in no particular order of preference. Cheers! A large, auto-centric city … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, air travel, airport planning, airports, Alternative transportation, architecture, aviation, bicycling, Cars, cities, commerce, downtown, economic development, entertainment, environment, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, nature, new urbanism, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, Railroads, revitalization, spatial design, sprawl, States, sustainability, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, zoning
Tagged airports, biking, cities, Colorado, commuter rail, Denver, Front Range, geography, land use, mountains, new urbanism, planning, spatial design, sprawl, vistas, Wyoming
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California Zephyr dreamin’…on such a winter’s day
Greetings from Boulder, Colorado, everyone! This evening I will be boarding Amtrak’s California Zephyr in Denver for the trip back east into the polar vortex. Not to say it’s not plenty cold and snowy here, but in comparison to what … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, cities, commerce, culture, environment, fun, geography, history, infrastructure, Ireland, land use, Maps, music, Passenger rail, rail, seasons, sustainability, tourism, transportation, Travel, UK, weather
Tagged Alaska Railroad, AMTRAK, California Zephyr, Chicago, Denver, geography, history, maps, passenger rail, rail, railroads, tourism, trains, transportation, travel
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Ranking America’s urban forests
American Forests recently announced its ten best cities for urban forests for 2013. The top ten, out of the 50 largest cities in the nation are listed in alphabetical order below (weblinks to each winner’s results are provided): Austin Charlotte … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, climate change, energy, environment, geography, health, historic preservation, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, nature, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, pollution, recreation, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, tourism, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, Wildlife
Tagged Austin, charlotte, cities, Denver, environment, green infrastructure, green space, land use, landscapes, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, nature, New York City, parks, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, trees, urban forests, urban planning, Washington, wildlife
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Ideas for Stapleton’s iconic control tower
On our way back from Boulder to Denver International Airport on Sunday morning, Brendan and I stopped by the Stapleton development in Denver to see the old Stapleton International Airport control tower. This handsome and historic structure is pretty much … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Advocacy, aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, art, aviation, branding, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, culture, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, geography, government, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, revitalization, skylines, spatial design, technology, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged aerospece, airlines, airports, aviation, Colorado, control towers, Denver, geography, history, land use, museums, planning, Stapleton International Airport, transportation, travel, urban planning
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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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