Icons of the North End and Folks Who’ve Hung Out There
Wolfie Browender • July 16, 2021 Seeing a neighborhood via bike, with a camera, conveys a true sense of place.
Category: Neighborhoods
Wolfie Browender • July 16, 2021 
Walking All the Streets of Central Marcy-Holmes
Max Hailperin • July 9, 2021 The central portion of Minneapolis’s Marcy-Holmes neighborhood contains everything from industry to residences, ranging from the 19th to the 21st century. Moreover, the residences span the range from owner-occupied single-family houses to mid-rise apartment buildings.
Walking All the Streets of Downstream Marcy-Holmes, Dinkytown
Max Hailperin • June 3, 2021 I walked this portion of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood on May 25, 2021, using a route map I drew on March 10, 2020. So yes, a pandemic did happen. I had public health reasons to pause the All of Minneapolis project and restroom access reasons. And I also wasn’t sure I could live up to my […]
Neighborhood Character Is a Myth. Long Live Neighborhood Character
Fred Kreider • May 21, 2021 What good is “neighborhood character” if it contributes to climate change, car culture and lack of affordable housing?
National Links: Lumber Prices and Solar Pavement
Jeff Wood • May 11, 2021 Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes […]
Historic Paving Tour of the Minneapolis Warehouse District – Sunday, May 16th
Minneapolis has oft been accused of not having done enough to preserve its historic structures, particularly in reference to the loss of the Gateway District, and especially when contrasted with successful efforts to save ornamentally clad buildings in Saint Paul. The jeers have endured decades of evolution or devolution in the Twin Cities, depending upon […]
What’s Hidden in Your Neighborhood? Seeing Others Matters Now, More Than Ever
Tamara Jorell • April 23, 2021 Building community happens when we open our eyes to what’s around us.
Hennepin Avenue: A Street for All Ages
Julia Curran • April 15, 2021 Being raised in a family that didn’t default to driving gave me the wind in my hair as a toddler on the back of my mother’s bike; a sense of self-confidence as my father would walk with me to school; the knowledge that I will always have choices in how I get around. But that […]
On Hennepin: Good Ancestors Build Better Neighborhoods
Julie Kearns • For the sake of our collective wellbeing—and the just transition that those little hands are relying on us to deliver—we must allow ourselves to plan not for the past that has failed us, but instead, for a shared vision of a healed community in a thriving future.
Safe Streets are Good for Business
Matt Lewis • April 14, 2021 It’s a day ending in -y, so business owners are concerned about parking again. This time we’re on Hennepin Avenue, between Douglas and Lake. Is it Uptown? Only a certain former city council member could tell you. Business owners on Hennepin got loud enough about the prospect of less street parking in the upcoming reconstruction […]