City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity.[1]Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth"[2] are also believed to have economic value.[1] Their economic value is difficult to measure,[1] but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by "
branding" themselves by adopting new slogans.[2]
This list includes both official and unofficial nicknames. Some of the nicknames that were used historically may no longer be in use.
Blaine's nickname celebrates the
Peace Arch on the U.S. border with Canada.
^Nard Jones remarked in his 1972 book Seattle (Doubleday,
ISBN0-385-01875-4), p. 354, that the nickname was "almost abandoned now because of a homosexual twist of semantics".
^History of the Spokane Lilac FestivalArchived 2008-04-24 at the
Wayback Machine, originally prepared by Linda Kiddo and updated as of February 2004. "The suggestion that Spokane be known as 'The Lilac City' is attributed to Dr. S. E. Lambert, W.T. Triplett and John W. Duncan. In the early 1930s these men encourage the local garden club to plant lilac bushes throughout the City of Spokane."
City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity.[1]Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth"[2] are also believed to have economic value.[1] Their economic value is difficult to measure,[1] but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by "
branding" themselves by adopting new slogans.[2]
This list includes both official and unofficial nicknames. Some of the nicknames that were used historically may no longer be in use.
Blaine's nickname celebrates the
Peace Arch on the U.S. border with Canada.
^Nard Jones remarked in his 1972 book Seattle (Doubleday,
ISBN0-385-01875-4), p. 354, that the nickname was "almost abandoned now because of a homosexual twist of semantics".
^History of the Spokane Lilac FestivalArchived 2008-04-24 at the
Wayback Machine, originally prepared by Linda Kiddo and updated as of February 2004. "The suggestion that Spokane be known as 'The Lilac City' is attributed to Dr. S. E. Lambert, W.T. Triplett and John W. Duncan. In the early 1930s these men encourage the local garden club to plant lilac bushes throughout the City of Spokane."