Daftar julukan kota di Iowa

Daftar julukan kota di Iowa ini mengandung samaran, 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.

• Algona – Home of the World's Largest Cheeto[3][4]
• Cedar Rapids – The City of Five Seasons[3][5]
• Council Bluffs – Iowa's Leading Edge[6]
• Des Moines – Hartford of the West[7]
• Dubuque – Masterpiece on the Mississippi
• Dyersville – Farm Toy Capital of the World[8]
• Earling - Progress Is Our Future
• Emmetsburg – Iowa's Irish Capital[9]
• Fort Dodge – Mineral City[10]
• Fort Madison – Pen City[11]
• Grinnell – Jewel of the Prairie[12]
• Keokuk – Gate City (reported in the 1880s)[13]
• Knoxville – Sprint Car Capitol of the World
• Lake City – Everything But the Lake
• Le Mars – Ice Cream Capital of the World[14][15]
• Sioux City – Little Chicago[16]
• Villisca – Living with a Mystery[17]

Lihat pula

• Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat

Referensi

1. 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. 
2. Alfredo Andia, Branding the Generic City:) Diarsipkan 2008-05-21 di Wayback Machine., MU.DOT magazine, September 10, 2007
3. U.S. City Monikers, Tagline Guru website, accessed January 5, 2008
4. 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
5. City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
6. Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce, accessed December 9, 2015
7. 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
8. Claims to Fame - Favorites Diarsipkan 2008-01-16 di Wayback Machine., Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
9. Claims to Fame - Ethnic Groups Diarsipkan 2007-12-17 di Wayback Machine., Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
10. Claims to Fame - Rocks Diarsipkan 2008-02-18 di Wayback Machine., Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
11. FM to remain Pen City^[pranala nonaktif permanen], Fort Madison Daily Democrat, accessed November 14, 2011.
12. Mayor's Letter, Grinnell, IA Village Profile website (accessed June 2, 2008)
13. Barry Popik, Smoky City, barrypopik.com website, March 27, 2005
14. Claims to Fame - Food Diarsipkan 2017-04-01 di Wayback Machine., Epodunk, accessed April 16, 2007.
15. "The World Capital of Whatever", The New York Times by Harold Faber, September 12, 1993.
16. 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."
17. 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