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- Since when are fire trucks incapable of backing up?
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Tag Archives: fun
Candidate cities for orange clown’s future lie-brary
Here’s a list of candidate cities for the new president’s future lie-brary or alternate fact-ory. Given that he doesn’t like to read, one assumes it will be filled with decrees, rants, tweet-storms, and love letters between him and Vladimir Putin. … Continue reading
Posted in branding, cities, civics, Communications, fun, futurism, geography, government, history, humanity, land use, place names, politics, racism, satire, Travel, visual pollution
Tagged cities, fun, geography, libraries, politics, sarcasm, satire
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Superhero cities
Below are listed famous superheroes from comic books, television, film, and cartoons and the primary city where they are based in or operate from. As some superheroes do not have a primary city where they perform feats of derring-do, those … Continue reading
Posted in books, cartoons, cities, entertainment, fun, futurism, Television, writing
Tagged cartoons, cities, comics, fun, superheroes, TV
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Lessons from Boston’s Irish Heritage Trail
Many of us are familiar with Boston’s Freedom Trail – a walking tour that takes one to famous sights ranging from Paul Revere’s home to the Old North Church to the Boston Massacre site to Bunker Hill. Virtually anyone growing … Continue reading
Posted in art, cities, civics, Communications, culture, economic development, education, entertainment, Europe, family, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, immigration, Ireland, land use, Maps, music, pictures, placemaking, planning, Religion, tourism, trails, Transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged fun, history, Ireland, trails
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Transforming the mundane into the m-a-r-v-e-l-o-u-s!
There are certain mundane objects that we see each and every day, but hardly think about. They have become the equivalent of background noise in our visual world. Such mundane items might include light poles, mailboxes, dumpsters, utility boxes, overpasses, … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, art, branding, bridges, cities, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, fun, infrastructure, land use, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, spatial design, urban planning
Tagged art, cities, design, dumpsters, fun, infrastructure, overpasses, planning, stairways, utility boxes, visual art
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Cities stuck in “The Middle”
Here’s my list of cities and towns whose name refers to being located in the center or middle. One of the intriguing things about many of these communities is the number of them that lack being in the middle of … Continue reading
Posted in branding, Canada, cities, Communications, fun, geography, land use, Maps, North America, place names, placemaking, planning, States, Statistics, tourism, Travel
Tagged center, central, cities, fun, geography, heart, maps, mid, middle, midway, placenames, The Middle, towns
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Yoga-fied city names
A little fun today with adding yoga terms to city names. Here are 22 I came up with. Additions are welcome. Enjoy! Birming-hamsa (Birmingham), Alabama, Michigan, or UK Bridge-pose-port (Bridgeport), Connecticut Budda-pest (Budapest), Hungary Chakra-nooga (Chattanooga), Tennessee Corpse-Pose Christi (Corpus … Continue reading
