Gulu lotchuka la koleji lomwe limakhala lodziwika kwambiri ngati kuthawa kwa tchuthi kwa mlungu ndi mlungu, Iowa City ndi malo omwe akupita patsogolo kwambiri mu dziko lina lopanda malire. Komabe, Iowa idadodometsa anthu ambiri pamene idakhala chigawo choyamba chokwatira ukwati wokwatirana (ngakhale ndi chigamulo cha khoti).
Mzinda wa Iowa wouma bwino komanso wodekha umakhala wochuluka kwambiri pamene anthu ambiri akuyenda mumzinda ndi chikhalidwe koma amafuna kupeĊµa ndalama zambiri, mavuto osokoneza bongo, komanso kuopsezedwa ndi masewera akuluakulu.
Mzinda uwu wa pafupifupi 72,000 ndi wokwera mtengo, wosavuta kuyenda, komanso wotetezeka kwambiri. Ndilo ulendo wa masana wa Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, ndi St. Louis, ndipo ili ndi limodzi la masewera achiwoneka kwambiri a gay a mzinda uliwonse kukula kwake.
Kukhalapo kwa yunivesite ya Iowa yapamwamba (U ya I) ndi mbali imodzi ya zojambula zamakono za mzindawo ndipo anaganiza mwanzeru. Sukuluyi imakhala pafupi ndi mzindawu, koma mosiyana ndi anthu ena omwe amakhazikitsidwa ndi bungwe lalikulu la maphunziro, Iowa City ndi zambiri kuposa mzinda wa koleji.
Amayi ambiri ndi azimayi ambiri adasamukira kuno kuti apindule ndi khalidwe lapamwamba la mzindawo komanso kuti adzikhala ndi anthu ammudzi. Mzindawu unaletsa tsankho pakati pa amuna ndi akazi omwe ali pakati pa zaka za m'ma 1970, ndipo chaka chilichonse anthu zikwizikwi amapita ku chikondwerero cha Iowa City Pride mu June. Chikondwerero cha Music of Music Women in September. Yunivesite ya Iowa, ya Gay, ya Bisexual, Transgender, ndi Queer Resources, yomwe poyamba inali, GLBTAU ndipo inakhazikitsidwa mu 1970, imalandira abwenzi ndi alendo a mibadwo yonse, mosasamala kanthu za kugonana, kumisonkhano yambiri, kuchokera m'mafilimu mpaka kumavina ku misonkhano .
Komanso, malinga ndi kafukufuku wam'mbuyo, Iowa City ili ndi zaka 13 mu mtundu wa Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) mu "chiwerengero cha mabanja ogonana omwe ali achiwerewere kapena achiwerewere."
Kaya ndinu wophunzira kapena munthu wamba, mlendo kapena mderalo, ku Iowa City kumapezeka kwambiri ku Yunivesite ya Iowa komanso kumapiri ake obiriwira, omwe amapezeka ndi nyumba zapamwamba zapamwamba komanso nyumba zatsopano zamakono.
U wa ine ndi wotchuka kwambiri chifukwa cha malo ogwira ntchito zachipatala komanso kwa a Writers 'Workshop, komwe zithunzi zalemba monga John Irving, John Cheever, Rita Dove, Jane Smiley, Flannery O'Connor, ndi Robert Penn Warren akhala akuphunzitsa kapena waphunzitsidwa. Wachinyamata wina wa Tennessee Williams nayenso ankaphunzira masewero apa.
Kuti muzimva kuti mumakhala nawo, ndipo mwinamwake mukuluma kudya, imani ndi yunivesite ya moyo wa ophunzira, yomwe ikukondweretsa ku Iowa Memorial Union, yomwe imapezeka kwa anthu onse. Lili ndi malo odyera ndi masitolo ambiri komanso hotelo. Onetsetsani kuti muwone zomwe zikusewera ku Bijou Cinema ya mgwirizano, masewera a zisudzo omwe nthawi zambiri amawonetsa mafilimu omwe amawoneka. Malo odyetserako masewerawa ndi U wa Museum of Natural History - nyumba zakale kwambiri kumadzulo kwa mtsinje wa Mississippi - zomwe zili ndi ziweto zambiri ndi mbalame komanso zowonetsera zaka 500 miliyoni za mbiri yakale ku Iowa.
Wina wotchuka kwambiri ndi U wa Museum of Art, amene nyumba zake zimayesa zaka mazana angapo za African, Southwest America, Pre-Columbian, European, ndi America. Mutha kuona ntchito za Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, ndi modernist Maray Marsden Hartley. Phunzirani za nthawi ya Iowa City monga likulu la boma (1840-1857) ku Old Capitol Museum, yomwe ili ndi nyumba yokongola kwambiri yomwe idakhazikitsidwa pulezidenti wa Iowa.
Yunivesite ili ndi malo angapo ogwira ntchito omwe amalandira zamalonda zamtundu uliwonse komanso zamayiko apadziko lonse, omwe ndi olemekezeka kwambiri omwe ali Hancher Auditorium, omwe mabuku amadziwika kwambiri ndi nyimbo ndi kuyendera mawonedwe owonetsera. Uwu wa Masewera Owonetsera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Otsogolera Mafilimu Mzinda wa Iowa City Community Theatre ndi malo ena olemekezeka.
Oposa ochepa alendo amabwera kuno ndi kugula m'maganizo awo - Iowa City ili ndi zithunzi zambiri zamalonda, mabotolo okondweretsa, ndi malo ogulitsira nyimbo ndi ogulitsa malonda. Anthu okonda masewera amayenera kuonetsetsa kuti akajambula zithunzi za Iowa Artisans, zomwe zakhala zikugwira ntchito ya akatswiri ojambula zithunzi m'deralo kwa zaka zoposa 25.
Mzinda wa Prairie Lights waukulu kwambiri, womwe ndi waukulu kwambiri mumzindawu, uli ndi gawo lalikulu kwambiri lazigawenga komanso zachiwerewere kuphatikizapo nyuzipepala zambiri komanso zamagulu. Malo ophikira khofi pa chipinda chachiwiri ndi malo abwino kwambiri oyendetsa ubongo.
Downtown kumaphatikiziranso ndi maukwati ogonana ndi anyamata, amalesitilanti, ndi mahoitesi - fufuzani maulendo a Gay Olawa ndi Odyera Otsogolera maulendo.