Category: Flaneuring
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Flaneuring – Main Street and Basketball Memories in Lebanon, Indiana
Once a Main Streeter, always a Main Streeter. Main Street is in my blood. I say that because I started my professional career as a Main Street manager years ago, in another life as they say. I served as a Main Street in Ottawa, Illinois, a small town of just under 19,000 in population located…
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Flaneuring – Exploring Cleveland’s Iconic Bridges Along the Cuyahoga River
“What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.” – Santiago Calatrava Bridges have always facinated me. They’re engineering and art rolled up into one bare and essential structure meant to transport us from one place to another. And who knows more about…
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Flaneuring – MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas
I promised in my 2023 end-of-the-year post that I would write more about my recent travels to the MacArthur Park neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas. As with my recent post on Van Buren, Arkansas – where a well-worn but well-cared-for downtown exudes a high level of meaning and character – MacArthur Park is another example…
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Flaneuring – Uptown Public Art
I visit lots of places around the country – most often as a peripatetic consultant under the constraints and pressures of a work assignment. A work assignment puts you on a strict schedule without much time for some necessary extras – like actually walking around an old downtown or neighborhood, trying to seep its patina…
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