Let’s (St)roll There — Biking to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival
In September 2022, on the final weekend, I decided to ride my bike from St. Paul to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. This year, it’s your turn!
Tag Archives: suburbia
Some Relatively Optimistic Predictions About Post-COVID Cities
Fears about the post-pandemic demise of our cities may have been greatly exaggerated.
Morningside Edina Passes the Trick-or-Treat Walkability Test
How can you tell if a neighborhood is safe, friendly, walkable, & successful? Advocates for great streets & neighborhoods look for clues as to what makes neighborhoods great, so what are some clues? Kids are often used as an “indicator species”–meaning, if kids use it, it must be great–and a common test is the Trick-or-Treat […]
Group Outing to the History Center’s Suburbia Exhibit
Do you like thinking and talking about land use and history? What a silly question, of course you do. Well, we’re having a Streets.mn outing and you should come. The Minnesota History Center recently opened a new exhibit called Suburbia. Through an exploration of building, living, and shopping in the suburbs, “guests are invited to look back […]
Roadkill Bill: Part 3 of Vincent Van Gogh in America
There was a pause last week in the penciling of the second book of Bicyclopolis as I took the opportunity to sketch the re-enactment of the homecoming of Civil War soldiers to Fort Snelling 150 years ago. Now, we return to the tale of Vincent Van Gogh, cloned from a piece of his ear. In today’s comic, Van Gogh refuses […]
Odd: Downtown East Station Blanketed in Ads Aimed at Suburban Drivers
If you hang around the Downtown East/ex-Metrodome Station for a few minutes while waiting for the train, you might begin to notice the advertising saturating the platform . It’s hard to miss, in part because it’s literally on every flat thing, and in part because it’s so incongruous, because it’s all about cars and suburban life. It […]