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Map Monday: Potential Lost Land Value in Minneapolis due to Freeways

By on August 13, 2018 in Freeways, Maps

Via Strong Towns, here’s an interesting map that purports to show how much Minneapolis land value was “lost” due to the replacing of dense urban land with non-taxpaying freeway infrastructure. As you have probably noticed, now that 35W and other interstate trenches are under construction, multi-lane urban freeways and onramps take up a lot of […]

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Map Monday: Cycle Tracks from Minneapolis, 1896

By on August 6, 2018 in History, Maps

Via the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society comes this map of the principal cycle runs out of Minneapolis in 1896. It is taken from the Minneapolis Times. It is available for purchase as a reprint from MNHS, but beware its current accuracy or safety.

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Map Monday: Parking per Acre in Des Moines

By on July 23, 2018 in Maps, Parking

It is true that Des Moines it not in Minnesota. And yet there is a new study out from the Research Institute for Housing in America (or RIHA) about the density and type of parking in five US cities, the closest being Des Moines, IA (metro population 634K, 270 miles south of Saint Paul). In […]

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Fourplexes, Freeways, and Fearmongering

By on July 19, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Maps

I’m very tired of white people using the words “bulldozing” and “eminent domain” to spread fear and misinformation about the 2040 Comp Plan, when literal city blocks of communities of color were leveled and replaced with bare pavement in living memory. I hadn’t seen the redlining maps overlaid on the current-day city, or maybe just […]

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Map Monday: USA Geography Weirdness Including Minneapolis Equals Venice

By on July 16, 2018 in Maps

Here’s a fun video, via Kottke, about some strange geographic alignment perceptions having to do with the United States. It includes a shoutout to Minneapolis, which is at roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy. Here’s the vid: The latitudinal alignment should not come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to […]

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Map Monday: Transit Access to Jobs for the Twin Cities Metro in 2017

By on July 9, 2018 in Maps, Transit

The most recent transit-and-jobs “Access Across America” report came out this week and here’ s the latest map. It’s a heat map showing “jobs within a 30 minute transit ride” of any given location on the map. Blues are 0-5K, greens are about 10-50K, and yellows and oranges denote 100-500K jobs. (Other cities have even […]

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Map Monday: Taxable Value per Acre for Hennepin County

By on June 25, 2018 in Land use, Maps

Via Minneapolis Clerk’s Twitter, here’s a map from a recent presentation by land use analysis group Urban3. they were in town a few weeks ago to share some data and thoughts about trends in Hennepin County. This map shows the taxable value generated for different parts of the city on a per-acre basis, rather than […]

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The 21st Century Southdale Vehicle Collapse

By on May 31, 2018 in Land use, Maps, Suburbia, Traffic

The perception that traffic congestion is worse today than in the past is a real phenomenon. Might as well call it traffic nostalgia. Plus, the perception that traffic is only going to get worse is a common objection for constructing new housing anywhere. A fourplex or daycare being proposed can bring forth primal concerns about […]

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Map Monday: Minneapolis New Construction vs. Land Use Zoning

By on May 29, 2018 in 2040 Minneapolis Comprehensive Plan, Maps, zoning

It’s not technically Monday but it feels like it is, so here’s a map from indefatigable Tweetable map-maker Scott Shaffer. It shows the number of “new construction permits” (i.e. bulldozing of an existing building slash parking lot) in Minneapolis over the last eight years or so. As you can see, the vast majority of new […]

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Map Monday: Can I Have a Recreational Fire in Minneapolis?

By on May 14, 2018 in Maps

Minneapolis should probably ban recreational fires given the air quality impacts. But folks have an affinity for “the cabin” and fire may actually be linked to the evolution of the human brain, so I understand the interest. There are a number of rules governing recreational fires in Minneapolis, one being that a fire must be […]

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