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- The First Great Hub of the Northern Plains
- Two Towns and Two Death Tales of Billy the Kid
- Cities/Towns Named for Native American Indian Chiefs
- Hell’s Worth of Wickedness in One Cowtown
- A Town that was Born Through a Scam!
- Best and Worst Live Concerts Seen
- The Old West Personified in a Town’s Iconic Name
- Ominous Sounding Frontier Town Names
- The Town That Was Moved Four Times!
- Pendulum Urban Planning – The Wild Ride Between Pro and Anti-development
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Tag Archives: Portland
Ranking America’s urban forests
American Forests recently announced its ten best cities for urban forests for 2013. The top ten, out of the 50 largest cities in the nation are listed in alphabetical order below (weblinks to each winner’s results are provided): Austin Charlotte … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, climate change, energy, environment, geography, health, historic preservation, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, nature, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, pollution, recreation, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, tourism, Travel, urban planning, visual pollution, Wildlife
Tagged Austin, charlotte, cities, Denver, environment, green infrastructure, green space, land use, landscapes, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, nature, New York City, parks, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, trees, urban forests, urban planning, Washington, wildlife
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Riverine airports – potential promises and pitfalls
In this post, I am referring to those rivers that have commercial airport runways running through, across, adjacent or within them. In a surprising number of locations in the United States and Canada, cities have utilized the riverine floodplain for siting … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, architecture, Canada, cities, commerce, Communications, deregulation, economic development, economic gardening, environment, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, nature, North America, placemaking, planning, product design, spatial design, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning, Wildlife, zoning
Tagged air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, Cincinnati, delta, emergency esponse, environment, Harrisburg, Iowa City, islands, Kansas City, Knoxville, La Crosse, la Guardia, land use planning, Little Rock, Lunken, nature, New York City, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, riparian, riverfront, riverine, rivers, Sioux City, St. Joseph, St. paul, transportation, urban planning, Vancouver, Washington, waterfront
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