An international brand resource for neighbourhoods, towns, cities, regions and economic clusters.
An international brand resource for neighbourhoods, towns, cities, regions and economic clusters.
Placeblog
As I was trolling the Internet researching this week’s blogs on places made famous by songs or expressions, I found a chat board where someone asked “Is Timbuktu a real place?” Heavens – you didn’t think Dr Seuss would write about somewhere imaginary did you? (see Hop on Pop).
From Peoria we turn to Tipperary, made famous in the World War I song “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.” In fact, it wasn’t originally a war song – it was written before the war, in 1912, and sung first in music halls. One of the composers had Irish grandparents, and that's where the reference to Tipperary came from. Alas, nobody really had a true love living there.
We’ve probably all heard the expression “But will it play in Peoria?” at one time or another. So, where the heck is Peoria, and why do we care if things will play there?
It’s almost the weekend and lists are fun, so here are a few of my favourites from the Maclean’s Book of Lists:
Writing the blog about contests got me thinking about lists – lists of the best, the prettiest, the most precious … is there anything that can get us more irrationally irate than a list of superlatives as defined by somebody else? Let’s see how spitting mad these ones get you:
There’s a great contest currently running over at 
For better or for worse, removing old landmarks changes a city irrevocably. And the Olympic Games, beloved as they are, can be blamed for many questionable urban planning choices.
What happens when a major landmark is not a building or a statue or some other human-made structure, but a piece of nature? Trees, stone arches, volcanoes, lakes, caves and any number of other natural features are considered landmarks around the world. But nature is not built to last forever.
This week, the small northern BC town of 
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Is there anyone out there who hasn’t owned a 
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