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Editor’s note: “Let’s (St)roll There” is an occasional series about ways to get to unusual or out-of-the-way places by foot, ...
Factories and future architecture, microparticles and managing event congestion — it’s a land of contrasts in this week’s ...
More than 100 people gathered in South Minneapolis recently to display, chat about and ride cargo bikes of all shapes and ...
A walk through the East-Bank Wedge reveals surprising layers of Minneapolis history, from 19th-century banks to contemporary ...
St. Paul may be ready to relax its prohibitions on neighborhood commercial buildings. Here’s how it could get over the finish ...
Santa Monica residents fight against affordable housing, the Supreme Court loosens requirements for environmental impact ...
In this issue of the Streets.mn newsletter, learn about why St. Paul needs zoning reform, a grassroots B Line campaign, the second part of the Midtown Greenway history and the aunties of active ...
Joe Harrington Joe is the Editor-in-chief at Streets.mn and a member of the board of directors. He writes on urban geography, public policy, transportation, and environmental issues. Joe also serves ...
Minnesota’s suburban “donut” has devoured resources, jobs and hospitals — deepening decline in both rural towns and inner-city neighborhoods.
As you might expect, the avenues are the other half of the story. The map below shows all avenues with directional suffixes. Many (but not all) of these avenues are numbered. In general, the origin ...
By removing the residents of these new buildings from the equation, “investors or local residents” becomes a false dichotomy that necessarily precludes what is needed to reverse the “decline of the ...
Fig. 1. “Fountain Cascade, near St. Paul,” stereoscopic view by W. H. Illingworth, circa 1875. This likely depicts the feature that gave Cascade Creek and Cascade Street their names. At the upper left ...