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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: seasons
Spring-like band names
With so many of us enduring long shelter at home orders during the Covid-19 pandemic, a list of band names based on or loosely related to spring seemed like it be a welcome relief. A similar post of wintry band … Continue reading
Posted in art, branding, entertainment, fun, history, music, seasons, weather
Tagged band names, music, seasons, spring, weather
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Even paradise has cloudy days
Over the past few months my praise and love for the Traverse City area has been expressed in many posts here on Panethos, on Facebook, or in conversations with family and friends. But even paradise on Earth can have cloudy … Continue reading
Posted in bicycling, Biking, books, brewpubs, cities, civics, civility, Communications, environment, family, geography, health, history, holiday, humanity, Love, movies, nature, pictures, placemaking, reading, seasons, tourism, Travel, weather
Tagged cities, climate, family, friends, geography, humanity, introspection, love, Miracle on 34th Street, movies, Northern Michigan, quotes, seasons, Traverse City, Up North, weather
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Seasonal city and town names
Below is my list of cities and towns with one of the seasons in its name. The list does not include community names with obvious references to water(falls) or mineral/hot (springs). Not surprisingly, “spring” is the most common season term … Continue reading
Posted in branding, cities, climate change, marketing, seasons, weather
Tagged cities, climate, etymology, place names, seasons, towns, weather
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My coldest bicycle commute ever
Sometimes you have to do something outside of your comfort zone, just to prove you can. After being subjected to a continuously brutal winter of snow, ice, wind, frigid temps, and drab skies while commuting by car, I decided that … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, bicycling, Biking, Communications, environment, fitness, fun, health, recreation, seasons, trails, transportation, weather
Tagged bicycling, bike commuting, seasons, transportation, weather, winter
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Why not a midwinter Smart Commute?
I cannot think of a better way to demonstrate the powerful benefits of Smart Commute, than to highlight its potential during the winter months as well as during fair weather. Most, if not all Smart Commute events seem to be … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, advertising, Advocacy, bicycling, bike sharing, Biking, branding, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, culture, environment, fitness, fun, geography, health, Health care, hiking, humanity, infrastructure, logistics, new urbanism, Passenger rail, planning, pollution, psychology, rail, recreation, seasons, spatial design, sustainability, trails, transit, transportation, urban planning, volunteerism, walking, weather, writing
Tagged active transportation, bicycling, cross-country skiiing, exercise, fitness, fun, health, hiking, ice skating, Ottawa, Rideau Canal, seasons, skating, skiing, Smart Commute, walking, weather, winter
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Prudent planner ideas based on the Winter of 2014
Given the truly delightful winter we have been suffering through this year, I thought it might be a good idea to list off some suggestions for us planners to consider for addressing potential future winter mayhem. You can never be … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Biking, Cars, cities, climate change, energy, environment, fun, geography, infrastructure, land use, nature, placemaking, planning, product design, satire, sustainability, transit, transportation, urban planning, weather, zoning
Tagged civics, climate, cold, emergency preparedness, Ice, planning, safety, seasons, snow, transit, transportation, urban planning, weather, winter
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Winter scenes on the Boulder Creek Path
Below are series of photos from my morning hike with my middle son this past Monday, January 6th, along portions of the 5.5 mile long Boulder Creek Path near the campus of the University of Colorado. It was absolutely gorgeous on this … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, art, bicycling, bike sharing, Biking, cities, civics, civility, colleges, culture, economic development, economic gardening, education, entertainment, environment, fitness, fun, geography, government, health, hiking, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, nature, pictures, placemaking, planning, recreation, schools, seasons, spatial design, States, sustainability, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, weather
Tagged biking, Boulder, Boulder Creek Path, cities, Colorado, fitness health, geography, greenways, hiking, images, land use, maps, photos, pictures, planning, recreation, seasons, trails, transportation, urban planning, walking, weather, winter
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When the node breaks…put logic back into logistics
I am writing everyone from a hotel room near the Denver and from my gate Denver International Airport. In case you didn’t see the update to the last post, my dream ride on the California Zephyr ended before it ever … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, Bus transportation, Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, Communications, Economy, environment, geography, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, nature, North America, Passenger rail, planning, product design, rail, seasons, spatial design, tourism, transportation, Travel, weather
Tagged air travel, airlines, AMTRAK, auto, buses, cities, freight, geography, hub and spoke, hubs, logistics, maps, nodes, railroads, seasons, tourism, trains, transportation, travel, weather
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Pissed-off planner: upgrade the damn grid!
For the second time in six weeks large swaths of Greater Lansing have been thrust into the dark and cold by bad weather – first a wind storm and now an ice storm. And once again, much of the suffering … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Alternative energy, architecture, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, economic development, energy, environment, geography, government, health, history, Housing, humanity, infrastructure, land use, nature, planning, politics, product design, seasons, spatial design, sustainability, urban planning, weather, zoning
Tagged climate, disasters, electrical grid, electricity, emergency planning, land use, meteorology, planning, seasons, storms, utilities, weather, winter
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Ice ice baby
We had a nasty ice storm overnight here in Greater Lansing, Michigan. Approximately one-half inch of ice covers just about everything this morning. Many trees, branches, and power lines are down and thousands are without power in the metropolitan area. … Continue reading
Posted in environment, history, infrastructure, land use, nature, pictures, planning, seasons, spatial design, weather
Tagged climate, Greater Lansing, Ice, ice storm, Michigan, seasons, weather, winter
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