Map Monday: Time Lapse Photos from 1939

Via CityPages, here’s one of those aerial slidey before-and-after maps of Minneapolis:

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Play with it. Maybe this’ll put the ‘then and now‘ feature out of commission.

Bill Lindeke

About Bill Lindeke

Pronouns: he/him

Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.