Daftar julukan kota di Iowa ini mengandung , julukan , dan slogan yang disematkan kepada beberapa kota di Iowa (resmi dan tidak resmi) oleh pemerintah kota, masyarakat setempat, orang asing, badan pariwisata , atau kamar dagang . Julukan kota berperan sebagai perintis identitas lokal, membantu orang asing mengenali masyarakat setempat, atau mengajak orang berkunjung karena julukannya khas; mengangkat martabat daerah; dan mempersatukan masyarakat. [ 1 ] Julukan dan slogan yang berubah menjadi "ideologi atau mitos" baru [ 2 ] juga diyakini memiliki potensi ekonomi. [ 1 ] Potensi ekonominya sulit diukur, [ 1 ] tetapi ada beberapa kota yang memakai slogan baru untuk memasarkan/mencitrakan diri dan memanfaatkan potensi ekonomi tersebut. [ 2 ]
Beberapa julukan tidak resmi bersifat positif dan negatif. Julukan tidak resmi di bawah ini populer dan sudah lama digunakan.
- – Home of the World's Largest Cheeto [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
- Cedar Rapids – The City of Five Seasons [ 3 ] [ 5 ]
- – Iowa's Leading Edge [ 6 ]
- Des Moines – Hartford of the West [ 7 ]
- Dubuque – Masterpiece on the Mississippi
- – Farm Toy Capital of the World [ 8 ]
- - Progress Is Our Future
- – Iowa's Irish Capital [ 9 ]
- – Mineral City [ 10 ]
- – Pen City [ 11 ]
- – Jewel of the Prairie [ 12 ]
- – Gate City (reported in the 1880s) [ 13 ]
- – Sprint Car Capitol of the World
- Lake City – Everything But the Lake
- – Ice Cream Capital of the World [ 14 ] [ 15 ]
- Sioux City – Little Chicago [ 16 ]
- – Living with a Mystery [ 17 ]
Lihat pula
Referensi
- ^ a b c Muench, David (December 1993). "Wisconsin Community Slogans: Their Use and Local Impacts" (PDF) . University of Wisconsin Extension. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal March 9, 2013 . Diakses tanggal April 10, 2007 .
- ^ a b Alfredo Andia, Branding the Generic City:) Diarsipkan 2008-05-21 di Wayback Machine ., MU.DOT magazine, September 10, 2007
- ^ a b U.S. City Monikers , Tagline Guru website, accessed January 5, 2008
- ^ Mike Conklin, Iowa town's claim to fame: the `World's Largest Cheeto' Diarsipkan 2018-11-18 di Wayback Machine ., Chicago Tribune , August 26, 2005
- ^ City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- ^ Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce , accessed December 9, 2015
- ^ Neal R. Peirce (1973), The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States , W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-05349-0 , page 106
- ^ Claims to Fame - Favorites Diarsipkan 2008-01-16 di Wayback Machine ., , accessed April 16, 2007.
- ^ Claims to Fame - Ethnic Groups Diarsipkan 2007-12-17 di Wayback Machine ., , accessed April 16, 2007.
- ^ Claims to Fame - Rocks Diarsipkan 2008-02-18 di Wayback Machine ., , accessed April 16, 2007.
- ^ FM to remain Pen City [ pranala nonaktif permanen ] , Fort Madison Daily Democrat, accessed November 14, 2011.
- ^ Mayor's Letter, Grinnell, IA Village Profile website (accessed June 2, 2008)
- ^ Barry Popik, , barrypopik.com website, March 27, 2005
- ^ Claims to Fame - Food Diarsipkan 2017-04-01 di Wayback Machine ., , accessed April 16, 2007.
- ^ "The World Capital of Whatever" , The New York Times by Harold Faber, September 12, 1993.
- ^ Rebecca Sunshine Our Hometown: Downtown Sioux City [ pranala nonaktif permanen ] , KTIV NewsChannel 4, July 20, 2008: "Sioux City for a long time was called Little Chicago because of its reputation during the prohibition years in particular for being quite the purveyor of alcoholic beverages."
- ^ Sloganville, USA Awards For Best City Mottos & Monikers , Tagline Guru website, accessed March 15, 2010
Pranala luar
- a list Diarsipkan 2015-02-14 di Wayback Machine . of American and a few Canadian nicknames
- U.S. cities list