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Tag Archives: Seattle
Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
In many post-industrial American cities, the legacy of their manufacturing might is too often gradually rusting away or being erased from memory in the hopes that new developments will somehow rekindle a once proud past. As a result, significant aspects … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, archaeology, architecture, art, cities, civics, culture, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, environment, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, industry, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, rail, Railroads, recreation, revitalization, rivers/watersheds, skylines, spatial design, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, trails, transportation, Travel, urban design, walking
Tagged adaptive reuse, Bethlehem, Birmingham, cities, Gas Works Park, indiustry, industrial archaeology, Marquette, Mill Ruins Park, Minneapolis, Ore Dock Boteco Center, Scranton, Seattle, Slodd Furnaces, Steamtown, Steel Stacks
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Seattle may join the super tall skyscraper club
While the exact height has yet to be determined, it appears Seattle will soon be joining that elite group of cities that are home to 100-story plus skyscrapers. A 101 story, 1.2 million square foot tower is proposed at the … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, cities, downtown, economic development, geography, land use, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, skylines, skyscrapers, Statistics, urban planning
Tagged architeture, cities, design, land use, planning, Seattle, skylines, skyscrapers, statistics, towers, urban planning
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Kudos to the kayak protesters of Seattle!
What an absolutely amazing photograph of the last weekend’s kayak protests in Seattle over Royal Dutch/Shell’s plan to begin Arctic Ocean oil drilling. If you cannot see or read the signs they say “Shell no.” While some have already argued that the activists … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Cars, cities, civics, civility, climate change, Communications, consumerism, culture, energy, environment, globalization, history, humanity, nature, peace, politics, pollution, Renewable Energy, Science, social equity, sustainability, technology, transportation, volunteerism, Wildlife
Tagged activists, advocacy, Arctic Ocean, cities, climate change, environment, global warming, kayaks, nature, oil, oil drilling, petroleum, pollution, protests, Seattle, Shell
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Five Chinatown Gates in eleven days
Here are photographs taken of Chinatown Friendship Gates in Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Victoria, Canada; as well as Seattle Washington during our recent train trip across Canada and the Pacific Northwest. In Winnipeg, there is an especially lovely Chinese Garden … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, Asia, Canada, China, cities, diversity, downtown, geography, land use, landscape architecture, North America, peace, pictures, placemaking, third places, tourism, Travel, Welcome
Tagged Canada, China, chinatown Gates, cities, gardens, land use, Seattle, Toronto, tourism, travel, Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg
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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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Cities are alive with the sound of music!
Thursday evening I had the chance to attend a seminar entitled, Music’s Impact on the Community. This superb and fascinating event was held at Michigan State University’s Center Community and Economic Development in Greater Lansing. Not only did the program … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, art, branding, cities, civics, coffee shops/cafes, commerce, Communications, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, economics, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Food, fun, globalization, history, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, marketing, music, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, product design, revitalization, schools, Small business, Social media, spatial design, technology, theaters, third places, tourism, Trade, Travel, urban planning, video, writing
Tagged albums, art, artists, Austin, Cleveland, Detroit, education, entertainment, fun, land use, Lansing, music, Nashville, Owensboro, Seattle, talent, Third places, video
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KEXP podcasts – great new music for free
For those of you who are not familiar with KEXP, it is a community public radio station operated by the University of Washington that specializes in emerging music, especially alternative and indie. Their motto of “where the music matters” … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, Music, video
Tagged iTunes, KEXP, musics, podcasts, rock, Seattle
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