The destination is often less notable than the path and traveler.
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Category: place decoding
places people go 3.0
Often, with zeal, people find sub-places within places.
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places people go 2.0
Traditional destinations are ripe for conversation, for all ages.
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places people go 1.0
Consider this the preface—a teaser—for a new series, and a new hashtag. Stand by for #placespeoplego.
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from urbanizing to urbanism, 2014, according to Facebook cover photos
During a year filled with four trips abroad and two months away, many of my 2014 Facebook cover photos helped fill my yearly urban and exurban diaries.
Themes address the overlapping (and therefore hardly mutually exclusive) nuances of habitation, history, cityscape, landscape and ecology.
France, Italy, Monaco, Scotland, Spain and the United States all unfold below according to these categories, in a fashion intended to memorialize an extraordinary 2014.
Habitation
History
Cityscape
Landscape
Ecology
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For more information on the role of personal experience in understanding the changing city, see Urbanism Without Effort, an e-book from Island Press.