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- Geography of film and TV production hubs in the USA/Canada
- North America’s tallest bridge towers and pylons (Las torres y pilones de puentes más altos de América del Norte)
- Cities/suburbs should replan street networks for low-speed electric vehicles
- Celebrity bridges of the United States in pop culture
- Cricket grounds with the largest capacity in South Asia
- Cities most often destroyed in movies – both real and imagined
- Skyscrapers of 100 stories or more above ground
- Three superb and fresh reads about Los Angeles
- Finding “Los Angeles” amid the aura of “LA”
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Tag Archives: Dubai
Issues of tall (sky) sprawl
I have asked myself at times whether in some places around the globe we humans are simply exchanging horizontal land sprawl with a tall (or sky) sprawl? Don’t get me wrong, I love to admire an impressive skyline just as … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Advocacy, Animals, architecture, art, Canada, charities, China, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, downtown, environment, geography, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, nature, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, skylines, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, Travel, UK, urban planning, visual pollution, zoning
Tagged architecture, art, birds, cities, context sensitive, design, Detroit, Dubai, environment, FLAP, Hong Kong, land use, Manchester, nature, skylines, spatial design, sprawl, tall buildings, tall sprawl, Toronto
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Skyscraper envy? – the rise of the “super-scraper”
Last night while surfing the net I stumbled across a story I had not known before. A 3,445 foot tall, 189 story skyscraper (Azerbaijan Tower) is planned in the Central Asian city of Baku, Azerbaijan. Needless to say, it would be … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, airports, architecture, Asia, China, cities, civics, commerce, culture, density, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, economics, Economy, entrepreneurship, geography, history, humanity, India, infrastructure, land use, movies, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, skylines, spatial design, Statistics, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged architecture, Azerbaijan, Baku, Burj Dubai, Chicago, cities, design, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, New York City, planning, skylines, skyscrapers, super-scrapers, Taipei
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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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