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Tag Archives: museums
Gnarly Native American art on skateboard decks
We had the pleasure of visiting the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This facility is very impressive and includes a variety of exhibits, meeting rooms, as well as a nice restaurant and gift shop. The exhibit that … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, art, cities, culture, diversity, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, history, humanity, inclusiveness, Native Americans, nature, pictures, placemaking, product design, recreation, Religion, Small business, sports, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel
Tagged Albuquerque, art, culture, history, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, museums, Native Americans, New Mexico, skateboards
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Working list – World’s longest ‘urban’ escalators
Below is a working list of the longest urban escalators in the world. This list does not include the sum total length of multi-escalator systems (such as the Central-Mid Levels Escalator/Walkway System in Hong Kong), but only individual escalators or … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, airport planning, airports, architecture, bicycling, Biking, cities, downtown, economic development, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, planning, skyscrapers, spatial design, Statistics, third places, topography, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged airports, bike, cities, escalators, malls, metros, museums, railway stations, stadiums, subways
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Favorite aerospace museums visited to date – UPDATED
Titan Missile Museum – Green Valley, AZ: best of the best – they focus on one topic and do it extremely well. The one and only place you can see a retired Titan Missile literally sitting in it’s underground launch … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, art, aviation, geography, historic preservation, history, military, Outer Space, pictures, placemaking, product design, Science, technology, tourism, Travel
Tagged aerospace, balloons, engineering, flight, hall of fame, missiles, museums, Science, space
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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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Cases of great Dublingenuity!
I finished reading a quite interesting and enlightening book over the past weekend, entitled Ingenious Dublin: a guide to the city’s marvels, discoveries, and inventions, by author Mary Mulvihill. It catalogues a wide variety of important inventions, innovations, and accomplishments, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, architecture, art, book reviews, books, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, Cuisine, culture, downtown, economic development, Economy, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, Europe, EVs and hybrids, film, fun, geography, Geology, government, health, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, movies, nature, rail, spatial design, technology, tourism, transportation, Travel
Tagged architecture, batteries, book reviews, books, cities, design, Drumm battery, Dublin, film, history, Howth, Ireland, Leo the Lion, literature, Mary Mulvihill, museums, railroads, William Bligh, writing
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Birthplace of the transistor radio
I was born in Indiana in the 1950s and grew up/lived there through college, but until recently I was totally unaware of my birth state’s pivotal role in the development of transistor radios. Until the early 1950s, radios were powered … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, art, branding, civics, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, Economy, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, placemaking, product design, States, technology, Television, Travel, video
Tagged art, Arvin, broadcasting, cities, columbus, Fort Wayne, history, Indiana, Indianapolis, Ligonier, Magnavox, Motorola, museums, radios, RCA, Regency, technology, transistor radios, Zenith
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Why the “Bilbao effect” works in Bilbao
The “Bilbao effect” (also known as the ‘Guggenheim effect’) pertains to the cause and effect (causal) relationship that occurred when a single world-class project became the catalyst for reviving this once gritty, economically distressed, post-industrial city. The opening of architect Frank Geary’s masterful Guggenheim Museum in 1997 … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, art, aviation, bicycling, cities, civics, commerce, culture, density, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, Europe, fun, geography, government, Green roofs, health, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, marketing, new urbanism, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, skylines, spatial design, sports, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking
Tagged airports, architecture, art, Basque, Bilbao, bridges, cities, design, economic development, Europe, Guggenheim, infrastructure, land use, museums, Spain, tourism, transportation, travel, urban planning
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Striking architecture in the land of Spartans
Got a chance earlier this week to visit the newly opened Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The boldly designed $40 million facility has been under construction for the past couple of years and … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, charities, cities, civics, culture, economic development, entertainment, fun, history, humanity, inclusiveness, land use, movies, Music, peace, pictures, placemaking, planning, product design, schools, third places, tourism, Travel, urban planning, volunteerism
Tagged architecture, art, cities, design, MSU. East Lansing, museums, paiting, Zaha Hadid
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The “Wright” place in Grand Rapids
Located in a lovely historic residential neighborhood just southeast of downtown Grand Rapids is the spectacular Meyer May House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909. Built at approximately the same time as the Robie House in Chicago, The Meyer … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, charities, cities, civics, civility, culture, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, fun, historic preservation, history, Housing, land use, landscape architecture, North America, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, spatial design, tourism, Travel
Tagged architecture, art, cities, design, Frank Lloyd Wright, Grand Rapids, historic preservation, history, landscape design, Meyer May House, Michigan, museums, Steelcase, tourism, tours, travel
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Discovering Chicago’s Hyde Park
I had never spent time wandering around the south side of Chicago in my many visits to this great city. Usually, it is the Loop, Magnificent Mile, the Gold Coast, the burbs, or the airports. Not sure why. Perhaps memories … Continue reading
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