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- Place Name Hall of Fame: Distinctly recognizable town/small and mid-sized city names
- Twelve planning lessons from Taos and the Taos Pueblo
- Solar energy production in the USA on former surface mines
- Monikers/nicknames for film and movie-making hubs
- Albuquerque – A city at the convergence of unparalleled geophysical landforms
- Strict planning & zoning destroys eclectic, offbeat, and funky
- Madrid, NM – Coal mining ghost town to eclectic art colony
- The many moods of the Sandia Mountains in a single day
- The “unity of drought” must supersede myths and self interest
- Gnarly Native American art on skateboard decks
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Tag Archives: infrastructure
Ten+ planning lessons from “remarqable” Marquette, Michigan
Before going through the twelve planning lessons listed below, it must be noted that for many years, Marquette has been at the top of my list of favorite cities in Michigan, as well as the at the top of my … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, bicycling, Biking, branding, cities, civics, colleges, commerce, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Geology, Great Lakes, hiking, historic preservation, history, immigration, infrastructure, land use, Mining, nature, new urbanism, place names, placemaking, planning, Railroads, recreation, revitalization, shipping, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, water trails, zoning
Tagged architecture, bicycling, cities, culture, fun, geography, infrastructure, Iron Ore Heritage Trail, land use, Marquette, Michigan, mining, planning, tourism, transportation
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Roadside Americana: Atomic age stops, sights, and oddities
This blogpost is a little adventure through the sights and sounds of America’s roadside culture to depict how the Atomic Age has impacted it since 1945. A whole variety of businesses have adopted the term “atomic” or some variation thereof … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, archaeology, architecture, art, atomic age, branding, brewpubs, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Communications, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, Maps, marketing, military, place names, placemaking, Science, Science fiction, signs, technology, theaters, third places, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged advertising, atomic, atomic age, Atomic City, branding, infrastructure, marketing, military, motels, neon, restaurants, roadside Americana, services, shops, signs, trademark, weapons
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Top engineering/design marvels seen to date by state/province
Alabama – U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville Alberta – Calgary’s Light Rail System (CTrain) Alaska – Alaska Railroad between Anchorage and Fairbanks Arkansas – Bobby Hopper Tunnel in NW Arkansas Arizona – Glen Canyon Bridge and Dam in … Continue reading
Posted in airports, architecture, bridges, Canada, cities, downtown, economic development, geography, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Outer Space, Passenger rail, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, Railroads, revitalization, skylines, States, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged airports, bridges, buildings, cities, design, engineering, infrastructure
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Zombifying commercial airports
In 1995, Lansing, Michigan’s Capital Region International Airport (LAN) would proudly boast in local radio advertisements that is was served by eight airlines. In 1997, its passenger activity peaked at 720,365. A mere 20 years later that number has free-fallen … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, branding, Bus transportation, cities, civics, commerce, deregulation, economic development, entrepreneurship, geography, government, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, marketing, planning, spatial design, Statistics, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, Uncategorized, urban planning
Tagged airlines, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, comemerce, infrastructure, land use, marketing, planning
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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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Largest Australian and New Zealand airports (by acreage)
Below is a list of the largest commercial aviation airports in Australia and New Zealand as measured by total acreage (using hectares and then multiplying by 2.471). Finding this land data proved to be more difficult than one would think … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, geography, infrastructure, land use, Oceania, placemaking, planning, spatial design, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel
Tagged aerospace, airport planning, airports, Australia, aviation, cities, infrastructure, land use, New Zealand, planning, tourism, transportation, travel
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America’s smallest MAJOR airports by acreage
The following is a list of the 20 smallest major airports in the USA ranked by their total land area. A minimum of 500,000 passenger enplanements was required to be included. As can be seen, some very busy and important … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, business, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, environment, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, pictures, planning, spatial design, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, planning, tourism, transportation, travel
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Puddle jumpers – America’s smallest commercial airports
Below is a list of America’s smallest commercial airports (those served by airlines) as measured by by acreage. These are the airports most likely to be served by puddle jumpers, even if they are nowhere near a large water body. … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, planning, spatial design, Statistics, topography, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged aerodromes, aerospace, airport planning, airports, aviation, cities, demographics, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, planning, spatial design, terrain, topography, tourism, transportation, travel
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More street connections = less cut-through traffic
The argument that connecting new neighborhoods to existing ones causing cut-through traffic is only true if there are limited street connections in the transportation network in the first place. If a community has a well-planned, interconnected transportation network then more … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, bicycling, Biking, Cars, cities, civics, environment, fitness, geography, health, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, placemaking, planning, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, traffic, transportation, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged cities, cut-through traffic, fitness, grid pattern, health, infrastructure, land use, NIMBY, spatial design, sprawl, traffic, transportation, transportation planning
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Charting the waters of Trader Joe’s distribution network: UPDATE #2
Below is a list of Trader Joe’s distribution facilities in the United States, along with the size, date opened, and geographic locations. With the exception of their facilities near Chicago and Dallas, all are concentrated on the East and West coasts, as … Continue reading
Posted in business, cities, commerce, economic development, geography, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, North America, planning, shipping, spatial design, States, Statistics, transportation, urban planning
Tagged cities, distribution, geography, infrastructure, land use, logictics, maps, shipping, Trader Joe's, transportation, trucking
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