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Outdoor deck at an airport: they can be great. So why so uncommon?

I try to avoid articles that are exclusively internationally driven, or even primarily international, as this one is.  But it’s hard not to wonder why, after so many years of flying, the overwhelming majority of airports are such massive, closed-off vaults.  Given that this is the final port of departure before passengers enter a hermetically

Visible power lines along the riverfront: a visual blight or a necessity?  Or both?

To the average observer, this just looks like a shallow creek threading through a lightly urbanized area.  Nothing special at all.  Kind of drab, even.  But to the locals, this riverfront image is probably quickly recognizable: the architecture of the buildings, though distant and none too striking, gives it away.  Or maybe it’s the bridge

Tom's Diner: Googie architecture in Denver

Googie gets guardianship: conserving the Atomic Age through Tom’s Diner in Denver.

It’s not every day that a person stumbles across a location that he or she had recently read about in the news, completely unintentionally.  But that’s exactly what happened earlier this year as I nudged my way forward, from a side street onto Colfax Avenue, the main east-west arterial in Denver.  And low and behold:

Mid-block traffic management: what’s behind those seemingly pointless stop lights in Denver?

I’m rarely one to begrudge municipalities that find creative, site-specific means of managing traffic flow.  If these solutions meet the desired outcome of improving the Level of Service (LOS) at a certain road segment, intersection, or even a single lane of traffic (left-turn, right-turn, mid-block, or through), and they achieve this without compromising safety for