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- World’s largest cities with three (3) letter names
- The Pumpkins return with a “Smashing” good record
- City/town names in USA/Canada that end with matching letters
- The High Desert bursts forth in a symphony of colors
- Scaling peaks of stone despite achy bones: A memoir and and an aspiration
- Ten favorite and least favorite state capital cities
- Los destinos divinos de Latinoamérica: Ciudades con nombres religiosos más allá de San/o, o Santa/o [Latin America’s divine destinations: Cities with religious names beyond San/o, or Santa/o]
- Ten dreamy planning lessons from cruising Michigan’s Woodward Corridor
- Cities and towns on the go –> Go –> GO!
- Twelve planning lessons from the Interstate Highway System
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Tag Archives: Florida
Ten Planning Lessons from Orlando/Winter Park
In terms of diversity and inclusiveness, the Orlando region of today is much improved compared to the Orlando of 50 years ago. Unlike much of the Orlando area, Winter Park has successfully maintained/employed new urbanism, walkability, and traffic calming techniques … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, air travel, airport planning, airports, Alternative transportation, architecture, art, Cars, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, commerce, culture, downtown, economic development, entertainment, geography, government, historic preservation, history, human rights, inclusiveness, land use, Maps, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, skylines, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, third places, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, weather
Tagged airports, Florida, Orlando, The Florida Project, walkability, Winter Park
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America’s most beautiful downtown – my vote is St. Augustine
I have had the great pleasure of visiting many communities across America ranging in size from hamlet to town to major city. This includes visits to parts of 49 states. Until this past week’s visit to St. Augustine, Florida I … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Advocacy, architecture, art, bridges, cities, civics, civility, Cuisine, culture, diversity, downtown, geography, government, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, Maps, North America, pictures, placemaking, planning, skylines, spatial design, tourism, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged Florida, scenic, St. Augustine, visual beauty
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When a suburb becomes larger than the core city
Below are examples from the United States of suburbs which have outgrown and overtaken the core city of the metropolitan area in population. As is evident from the list, many of these are planned retirement centers in Florida and … Continue reading
Posted in cities, economic development, geography, land use, marketing, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, Statistics, tourism, urban planning, zoning
Tagged Arizona, census, cities, core cities, demographics, Florida, land use, marketing, MSA, planning, politics, population, suburbs, Virginia
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City names with three+ sets of side-by-side matching letters
Below are eleven cities in the United States whose names have three or more sets of matching letters located side-by-side. Interestingly, all are from the Southern United States. Nearly two-thirds of them (seven) come from Florida and Georgia and are a … Continue reading
PortMiami Tunnel to open in May
The twin-tube 4,200 foot long PortMiami Tunnel is scheduled to open to traffic in May of 2014. Under construction since 2010, the $1 billion public-private partnership project will extend Interstate 395 under the Government Cut shipping channel separating Watson Island and Dodge … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Cars, cities, commerce, downtown, economic development, entertainment, geography, government, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, skylines, spatial design, Statistics, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel, tunnels, urban planning
Tagged cities, cruise ships, Florida, harbors, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Miami, planning, PortMiami, ports, seaports, shipping, tourism, transportation, travel, tunnels
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Miami to join the super-skyscraper club x 2
Just ten days ago I wrote about Philadelphia’s foray into the elite 1,000 foot skyscraper club. Well, Miami is about to join this illustrious group as well, but not with just one sky-high tower, but two. As a result, the … Continue reading
Posted in airport planning, airports, architecture, aviation, cities, civics, downtown, economic development, entertainment, geography, land use, new urbanism, North America, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, skylines, skyscrapers, spatial design, States, Statistics, technology, tourism, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged architecture, aviation, Brickell City Centre, buildings, cities, construction, design, engineering, Florida, land use, Miami, Miami International Airport, One Bayfront Plaza, planning, skylines, SkyRise Miami, skyscrapers, zoning
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Eclectic downtown placemaking at its best
Here are some photographs I took of historic and charming downtown Cocoa Village in the heart of Cocoa, Florida. Cocoa Village is a terrific example of eclectic smaller city downtown placemaking at its very best, including: Streetscaping Pedestrian and bicycle … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, architecture, art, bicycling, branding, cities, civics, coffee shops/cafes, commerce, Cuisine, culture, density, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, marketing, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, Small business, spatial design, sustainability, theaters, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged architecture, arts, cities, cocoa, Cocoa Village, Florida, historic preservation, history, land use, placemaking, urban planning, zoning
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Cool surfing shops of Cocoa
While carvin’ a course in the Space Coast of Florida last week, which also happens to be home to the East Coast’s Surfing Capital in Cocoa Beach, I stumbled upon a radical line of footgear whose genesis was in the … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, advertising, architecture, bicycling, branding, cities, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, fitness, fun, geography, health, land use, marketing, nature, peace, placemaking, planning, product design, recycling, Small business, sports, sustainability, third places, tourism, Trade, Travel, walking, weather
Tagged branding, Cabela's IKEA, cocoa, Cocoa Beach, entrepreneurship, Florida, marketing, Melbourne, planning, Pro Bass, retailing, Ron Jon Surf Shop, sandals, Sanuk, shoes, slang, Space Coast, surfing, The Flop Shop
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Excellence in small city planning
I had the honor last week to vacation in Brevard County, Florida. Of all the communities of this dynamic county, the City of Cape Canaveral immediately stood out as exemplary in its community planning efforts, particularly in regards to land … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, aerospace, Alternative energy, Animals, architecture, art, bicycling, Biking, branding, cities, civics, civility, Cuisine, culture, density, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, energy, entrepreneurship, environment, geography, government, health, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, light pollution, marketing, nature, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, spatial design, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, walking, Wildlife, zoning
Tagged bicycling, Brevard County, Cape Canaveral, cities, community planning, complete streets, design, environmental planning, Florida, land use, nature, planning, sustainability, urban planning, visioning, walking, zoning
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The ultimate company town
I have visited Florida many times over the years, but this past week I came to realize that Orlando is truly the ultimate company town – in this case, it’s Disney’s company town. You can hardly go anywhere without the … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, air travel, airports, branding, cities, commerce, consumerism, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, economics, Economy, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, infrastructure, land use, marketing, movies, North America, placemaking, planning, product design, spatial design, sports, sprawl, sustainability, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged branding, cities, commerce, Disney, Disney World, entertainment, Florida, marketing, Orlando, tourism, travel
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