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Comparing Cities
- This piece "Canadian Cities American Cities: Our Differences Are the Same" (more of a report than an article) has an interesting style. It takes a historical look at the differences between the way Canadian and U.S. cities have developed. The author cites the urban highway as the primary difference that has impacted between […]
Light Rail Transit - A Pitfall of Disaster?
There's a hilarious (and what I would suspect as just slightly sarcastic) article in the Milwaukee Journal, "On Transit, Suburbs know Best"
"Egads. Minneapolis has just joined the ranks of cities with - now, cover the ears of children - light rail.
Thank goodness, suburban leaders have kept Milwaukee off that track, which takes an unsuspecting city headlong […]
MOMA Exhibit on Tall Buildings
The Museum of Modern Art (Queens) has, what looks to be, a very interesting exhibition on skyscrapers.
If you can't make to the actual exhibition, they also have a very fancy website for the exhibition.
Proposed Smoking Ban Breeds New Libertarian
I was in a meeting with some local neighborhood folk and our Citycouncil person and we were discussing the new smoking ban in Minneapolis. He asked what we thought of it, and I told him what I've told him before. I think the ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants is […]
Suburban Sprawl: An article and photos
There's not too much to write about tonight, so I'll opt for the easy post. A couple photos of urban sprawl in the Twin Cities.
For reference, St. Michael: Growing its own way
"When Mayor Wayne Kessler was a child, St. Michael was a town of about 400 people amid farm fields halfway between Minneapolis and St. […]
Futuristic Transportation
This is really a great site to page through. UC-Berkeley's Doe Library has put together an exhibition that looks at futuristic transportation.
The accompanying online exhibition explores areas such as futuristic transportation concepts in autos, helicoptors, monorails, personal rapid transit, and well, "other oddities (and many other areas). It's very visual and cool. Check it out. […]