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Map Monday: 1891 Panoramic Map of Minneapolis

By on April 15, 2019 in History, Maps

Here’s a cool “map”, one of the many aerial panoramas from the late 19th century Minneapolis. Here is an 1891 view showing downtown, Bridge Square, Hennepin, Nicollet, and Washington Avenues, the railyards, mill district, St. Anthony falls, and the street grid extending out towards the horizon of progress and real estate development. Link to a […]

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Map Monday: New Construction and Vacancy Rates in Minneapolis

By on April 8, 2019 in Housing, Maps

We know that Minneapolis and it environs have a historically, dangerously low vacancy rate. The proportion of homes that are for sale or for rent is far less than a healthy five percent, so renters and buyers compete for empty units, and sellers and landlords make more money than they would otherwise. We need more […]

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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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Map Monday: Minneapolis Crash Concentration Map

By on March 25, 2019 in Maps, Safety

Here’s a map of the city of Minneapolis taken from the recent report that put together a massive amount of city-wide crash data. Here’s one of the maps in the study, which shows the crash density for the key “concentration” corridors where the bulk of the city’s crashes are located: The study has a lot […]

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Another Surface Parking Lot Bites the Dust

By on March 21, 2019 in Architecture, Cars, Development, Downtown, Housing, Land use, Maps, Parking, Pedestrians, Pedestrians, Urbanism, Walking

This morning, the North Loop was awoken by the sweet sound of pile driving as the Archive project started construction on a surface parking lot near the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. The surface parking lot is one of the last in the area, with several being redeveloped in the last ten years into mixed-use […]

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Map Monday: River Basins of America

By on March 18, 2019 in Maps, Rivers, Waterways

In a departure from transit and housing, today we present a map created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej. This map shows the massive expanse of river basins across the United States, especially those which feed the Mississippi River. The rivers that feed the Mississippi are in hot pink. For those looking for high ground as we start to […]

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Map Monday: An Urban Transit-Type Portrayal of the Upper Mississippi

By on March 11, 2019 in Maps, Rivers

A cartographer living in Madison, Wisconsin, Daniel Huffman makes maps as an art form. He has created typewriter maps, a chart of islands called “Round Island,” a wine country map in the style of the Oregon Trail, an unfurled map of Lake Michigan’s shoreline and an entire series of River Transit Maps. It’s fascinating to see our waterways […]

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Do Single-Side All-Winter Parking Restrictions Work Anywhere?

By on March 11, 2019 in Maps, Neighborhoods, Parking, Streets, Suburbia, Winter

It wasn’t always like this. This changed roughly five years ago. I’m talking about the parking restrictions, that is. See that sign? As I said, roughly five years ago my neighborhood’s sixty-year-old streets reached their functional end. When we moved in about 11 years back the streets were horrendous. Every Spring potholes were patched. The […]

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Map Monday: Natural Springs of the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Area

By on March 4, 2019 in Environment, Maps

Here’s a cool map taken from the archives of the Minnesota Ground Water Association (yes, that’s a thing), compiled by underground researcher Greg Brick (author of the eye-opening Subterranean Twin Cities). Here Brick has mapped out all the springs of along the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers in the core Twin Cities area. Check it out: In the […]

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How Houston Reimagined its Transit Network and Increased Ridership

By on February 25, 2019 in Buses, Maps, Plans, Trains, Transit, Transportation

Featured image credit: Laura Bliss, CityLab As a transit-oriented blog reader, you may have heard back in 2015 that Houston’s Metro system changed the route map of its buses overnight after years of careful planning and community feedback. Now going on four years later, what has been the impact on riders and the communities they live in? […]

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