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Designing Cities for Women: Lessons from Barcelona’s ‘Feminist City’

By on May 22, 2020 in Advocacy, Demographics, Justice, Planning, Safety, Transportation, Urban Design, Walking

In my recent streets.mn article, “Want Equitable Cities? We’ll Need More Women in Transportation Planning,” I argued that women’s under-representation in transportation planning and policy making leads to the creation of urban spaces that fail to meet the needs of girls and women. I ended the article with a bold question: What would cities look […]

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Want Equitable Cities? We’ll Need More Women in Transportation Planning

By on April 27, 2020 in Advocacy, Demographics, Infrastructure, Land Use, Planning, Transit, Urban Design, Walking

The majority of people who use public transit in the United States are women, yet transportation planners and engineers are predominantly men.  The underrepresentation of women in planning has created cities in which women’s needs are not met. This begs the question, what would public spaces and transportation look like if women had a greater role in […]

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Map Monday: Population Change in Minnesota, 2017-2018

By on February 10, 2020 in Demographics, Maps, Streets

Here are four interesting maps from Minneapolis map guru and sometime streets.mn writer Scott Shaffer, posted on Twitter the other day. They show population change trends in Minnesota by county over the last year. Check them out:   The takeaway? The metro is growing, and that goes double for the core cities. Anyone see any […]

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Map Monday: Minnesota Changes to Median Age

By on July 8, 2019 in Demographics, Maps

Via peerless local cartographer Scott Shaffer’s Twitter feed, here are some maps showing the median age of Minnesotans by county. Here’s the fascinating 2010 map:   And here’s the map showing how median ages have changed from 1980 to 2010. As you can see, there are distinct patterns when it comes to the metro area […]

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Minneapolis Market Check: 2-bed / 1-Bath Units in Lyndale

By on April 19, 2019 in Demographics, Housing, Neighborhoods

he Lyndale neighborhood in Minneapolis contains a full healthy stock of small, medium, and large buildings that have been invested in and stabilized over many decades. At the height of 1980s urban decline and until 2007, various civic organizations pressed deadbeat landlords into cleaning up their properties and/or selling them to the neighborhood itself. This […]

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Map Monday: Met Council’s Proposed 2020 Census Tracts and Blocks

By on April 1, 2019 in Demographics, Maps

The Metropolitan Council has put out a call for feedback on its proposed changes to the census tracts and blockgroups for the seven-county region. As former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg famously said, “If you can’t measure, it you can’t manage it and fix it.” The U.S. Census Bureau is a common way we […]

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Minneapolis Neighborhood Organizations Fall Short of Diversity Targets

By on March 6, 2019 in Demographics, Neighborhoods

The percentage of people of color and renters serving on the boards of Minneapolis neighborhood organizations has remained flat since 2014, far below their share of the city’s population as a whole. This is according to a demographic survey conducted by the city’s Neighborhood and Community Relations department. The results were presented to the City […]

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Counting The Homeless On The Train One July Evening

By on January 15, 2019 in Demographics, Housing, Planning, Railroads, Transit, Urban Design

Dignity. Housing. Help. Five dollars. That’s what some people clamored for when they saw us on the Blue Line one July morning. With our safety vests on and our clipboards wielded, they recognized us as staff (volunteer or paid, it didn’t seem to matter to them) conducting the Point-In-Time Count. It’s a quarterly – now […]

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Map Monday: Visualizing Twin Cities Sprawl, Density, and Change

By on November 5, 2018 in Demographics, Greater Minnesota, Land Use, Maps

Like many of the maps I find I came across a webpage via Twitter, hat tip to @stateofthecity. The webpage takes data from the Global Human Settlement Layer and runs it onto Google Maps. This is the result, Human Terrain by Matt Daniels (@matthew_daniels). I immediately panned to tool over to Minnesota and geeked out. Something I […]

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Chart of the Day: Population Growth in Largest Midwestern Metros

By on October 16, 2018 in Demographics, Economics

Bloomberg carried a chart-laden article recently, written by Justin Fox, showing the disparate population growth rates in Northeastern and Midwestern cities. It charts the differences in growth rate distribution along the coasts, where three large metro areas are generating nearly all the population growth, and in the Midwest, where growth rates are more evenly distributed. […]

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