Saturday, April 28, 2007

Cúcuta, Colombia... a nice city to visit!!

I created this thread to show my city..



Panoramics...












Centro Comercial Gran Bulevar (Exterior)
Av. 0 Calle 11



Centro Comercial Gran Bulevar (Interior)
Av. 0 Calle 11



Centro Comercial VIVERO (Día)
Puente Elias M. Soto - Round Point Carlos Ramírez París



Centro Comercial VIERO (Noche)
Puente Elias M. Soto - Round Point Carlos Ramírez París



UNICENTRO (EN CONSTRUCCIÃ"N)
Av. Libertadores con Canal Bogotá



Centro Comercial Ventura Plaza (EN CONSTRUCCIÃ"N)









Centro de la Ciudad



Av. Libertadores



Av. 0 Calle 13



Av. 0



Av. Libertadores



Av. Libertadores



Catedral (NAVIDAD)



Catedral



Iglesia de San Luis



Iglesia Perpetuo Socorro



Templo Historico (Donde se reunió el congreso de Cúcuta - Queda al lado de la casa del general SANTANDER)



Hotel Casino Internacional



Hotel Tonchala



Coliseo Toto Hernández



Piscina Olimpica



Redoma Carlos Ramírez Paris



Redoma Carlos Ramírez Paris



Puente Internacional Simón Bolivar (Divide a Colmbia y Venezuela)



Fuente Luminosa
Av. Calle 10



Puente Elias M. Soto



Puente Elias M. Soto



Parque Simón Bolivar



Parque Colon



Parque Colon



Parque Santander



Parque Santander



CÚCUTA DEPORTIVO



Restaurante Carritos (Navidad)



Restaurante Carritos (Navidad)



Pueblito Coca Cola



Restaurante Rodizio



Ok.. that's all!!
I hope you liked!>

What cities are suburban, downtown or neighborhood cities?

I would say the best example of a suburban city I have seen would
be Kansas City, Missouri. Yes, they have the country club plaza and are improving their downtown they are still very suburban. I believe Kansas City is about 450,000 people with-in 300 square miles so the city itself has very low population density. Ive heard Kansas City is a great place if you like tons of space though. Omaha is another very suburban city with only 850,000 people in the metro the city sprawls for at least 20 miles from downtown, what are they up to now 220th street. Alot of times suburban cities have vibrant suburbs but very few happening areas in the city itself. Colorado Springs also is a very suburban city not even 600,000 people in the metro area and it sprawls 30 miles along Interstate 25 mostly with commercial big box retailers and strip-malls with at least a dozen chinese restaurants on every major throughfare.


I would say a neighborhoods kind of city is Columbus, Ohio. Downtown as of 2003 when I was there was not their strong suit at all. All the activity was in its many vibrant urban neighborhoods. Short North has at least 70 art galleries and many, many restaurants and bars. The brewery district with bars, The german village with its great architecture, Grandview Heights commercial strip, The many many people always walking along High Street near OSU.
Columbus I dont think the city of sprawl nearly as much as people would wanna
convince, for a metropolitan area the population of Indianapolis it seems smaller in land area. Pittsburgh and St. Louis I would also put in this category.

Downtown city: I would say Indianapolis is a "downtown city" they keep the downtown looking good with tons of stuff around and the 4 storey mall. But once your in the neighborhoods you can tell they have pretty much put all the cities chips in the downtown area. Other downtown cities would be Denver, Des Moines and Madison (along that strip between the lakes)>

Cities in unattractive states

How do cities of "unattractive" states like Minnesota, Wyoming, Mississippi, etc. compare to cities in "attractive" states like California, Texas, Florida, or Massachusetts?

What, if anything, about these "unattractive" states gives their cities an advantage over cities in "attractive" states?>

Wikipedia description of your city

How accurately does Wikipedia describe your city? Specfically, how well does it describe the urbanity, commercial districts, culture, architecture, and attitude in your city?


Here is the entry for Louisville, which I think is pretty accurate and a good read for anyone visiting the city:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville%2C_Ky>

Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL) is located in the Atlanta, Georgia, USA metropolitan area, and is the busiest airport in the world both in terms of number of passengers as well as the number of takeoffs and landings, surpassing Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It accommodated 980,197 takeoffs and landings in 2005, and handled 88.4 million passengers according to projections. Many of these flights are domestic flights from within the United States where Atlanta serves as a major transfer point for flights to and from smaller East Coast cities. As such, it has been the subject of an old joke stating that it doesn't matter where one will go in the afterlife; they will connect through Atlanta to get there. As an international gateway to the United States Hartsfield-Jackson ranks seventh; JFK International in New York City is first.[1]

The airport is located partly within the southern city limits of Atlanta and is adjacent to the city of College Park, Georgia, which is south of the city limits of Atlanta. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines and AirTran Airways. The airport is located within Fulton and Clayton Counties.

And with the new runway and the new terminal in about 10 years Atlanta will have a total of about 120 million passengers per year estimated. Currently Atlanta has 89 million passengers per year.











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