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

By on May 22, 2020 in Advocacy, Demographics, justice, Pedestrians, Placemaking, Planning, Politics, Safety, Transportation, 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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Make Minneapolis and St. Paul Parkway Closures Permanent

By on May 14, 2020 in Bicycling, Infrastructure, Streets, Transportation, Walking

Since Minneapolis and St. Paul have closed some of its parkways to motor vehicles to assist with social distancing due to COVID-19, I have been enjoying the extra room it has been supplying to pedestrians and bicyclists.  Even before the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) and the city of St. Paul implemented these measures, […]

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Walking: A Rare Joy of ‘Sheltering in Place’

By on March 30, 2020 in Carfree, delight cultivating, Pedestrians, Shopping, Transportation, Walking

Is it me? Or is everyone who is brave enough to go outdoors these days a little friendlier, a bit relieved to see another human being? With a record number of people unemployed, and only “essential” workers (a term that makes me feel dispensable) now allowed to report to their offices or shop floors, fewer […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southwest Lynnhurst

By on March 19, 2020 in Architecture, Neighborhoods, Photos, Urban Design, Walking

Adjoining areas are similar, but each view is unique—even viewing the same site from a different angle. In broad terms, this fourth visit to Lynnhurst was similar to the first, which I described as “Some parkland, a school, a church, a restaurant, and a whole bunch of single-family homes.” (Indeed, the second and third days were also close to that […]

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A Non-Definitive Ranking of Paths Over and Under I-94 in Minneapolis and Saint Paul

By on March 2, 2020 in Bicycling, Bridges, Streets, Walking

The other day, I decided I had a favorite bridge across I-94: the 3rd Ave bridge in Minneapolis. I love it! The cedar-inspired light installations, the wide sidewalks, the nice railings, the feeling of being welcomed into the city center. So, obviously, I have to have a least-favorite bridge, right? There are a good number […]

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Walking All the Streets of Southeast Lynnhurst

By on February 20, 2020 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Snow fell since my first and second walks in Lynnhurst, but it was still recognizably the same neighborhood with its predominance of single-family houses. The biggest novelty was that I walked along and across the main Minnehaha Creek as opposed to the little tributary draining Lake Harriet. My starting and ending point was at 50th Street West […]

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Walking All the Streets of Northeast Lynnhurst

By on February 7, 2020 in Neighborhoods, Walking

A month after walking the northwest corner of Lynnhurst, I returned for the northeast. I again stayed north of 50th Street, a busy through-road one doesn’t lightly cross. This time I wound my way from Fremont Avenue to the neighborhood’s eastern boundary at Lyndale Avenue, then returned with a perpendicularly-oriented serpentine. Already from the prior day’s […]

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Walking All the Streets of Northwest Lynnhurst

By on January 17, 2020 in Neighborhoods, Walking

Some parkland, a school, a church, a restaurant, and a whole bunch of single-family homes. That’s what I saw on my first day walking the Lynnhurst neighborhood. But also some fall colors, a statue, a solar-powered Little Free Library, and a whole bunch of pumpkins. The neighborhood is bounded by 46th and 54th Streets and […]

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Walking All the Streets of Lyndale, Day 2

By on January 3, 2020 in Neighborhoods, Walking

On a beautiful fall day, I walked all of the Lyndale neighborhood that I had missed on my prior walk. Actually, not quite all. Construction activity closed much of Stevens Avenue even for pedestrians, so those blocks appear in neither route. One indirect consequence is that this second route isn’t a closed loop; it starts under […]

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Don’t Run Us Over

By on January 2, 2020 in Bicycling, Pedestrians, Safety, Streets, Walking

I wish I could sing or play an instrument, because I’d like to make a recording of the alternate lyrics I made up for the classic Dionne Warwick song “Don’t Make Me Over,” written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. I may have been inspired by the version of “Old Town Road” about Saint Paul’s […]

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