During the mid-1950's, Florida decided to jump on the "-rama" bandwagon by constructing a permanent international expo called the "Inter-American Center," or Interama.
Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.
The G-222 aircraft, which were built between 1977 and 1985, are receiving avionics upgrades, while two will also be given sound-proof, VIP transport modules.
Some water experts are now demanding that existing infrastructure be used in smarter ways rather than building new facilities, which is increasingly considered the option of last, not first, resort.
Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built.
The government built the bridge directly from the airport to the Songdo International Business District, and the surface infrastructure was built at the same time as the new airport.
The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.
It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.
I am of the opinion when designing and building new towns, planning officials should give more consideration to the provision of public parks and sports facilities rather than ubiquitous malls.
Their house, designed by 3sixty Technology of Henderson, Nevada (of which Mr Johnstone is a director) and built in the aptly named neighbourhood of Mountain Helix, revolves completely, once an hour.
Although it dates from several hundred years after the building of the pyramids, its sophistication suggests that the Egyptians might have been developing ideas of flight for a long time.