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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
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Tag Archives: Wisconsin
A dreaming planner’s “tunnel vision”
Recently I wrote a post about the idea of developing an intermodal freight bypass of the Chicago railway bottleneck by developing container ports on both the Michigan and Wisconsin sides of Lake Michigan. That post received a lot of commentary, … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, architecture, Asia, China, civics, commerce, Communications, economic development, entrepreneurship, Europe, geography, government, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, North America, planning, product design, Statistics, technology, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel
Tagged Chicago, commerce, infrastructure, Lake Michigan, Michigan, Milwaukee, Muskegon, planning, railroads, railways, transportation, tunnels, urban planning, Wisconsin
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Are we missing a golden opportunity?
I’ve been thinking about the topic of logistics since reading the book Aerotropolis several months ago. One logistical issue that comes up on a regular basis is the congestion and delays that take place in and around Chicago. Being a … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, books, Canada, cities, commerce, Communications, economic development, economic gardening, economics, entrepreneurship, geography, globalization, history, infrastructure, land use, logistics, marketing, North America, placemaking, planning, Small business, technology, tourism, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged business, Chicago, cities, commerce, container ports, freight, Lake Michigan, logistics, Michigan, rail, shipping, trade, transportation, travel, trucking, Wisconsin
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State sponsored identity theft
Okay Wisconsin. Can’t think up anything innovative about your own state, so you try to steal a part of Michigan’s identity (see weblink to USA Today). At best your state resembles a fist with the pinky finger sticking out, but … Continue reading
Posted in civics, civility, fun, government, States
Tagged Michigan, mittens, slogans, Wisconsin
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