St. Paul's Urban Villages

22 February 2001 - 2:00pm

Planners have chosen mixed-used development to revitalize underused land for four major projects in St. Paul, MN. Will the strategy work?

As St. Paul continues its revitalization and redevelopment efforts, justabout every other project seems to involve the buzzwords of the moment: ``urban village.'' City planners are working on four major efforts in or near downtown...with several more proposals in the pipeline for other industrial areas or neighborhoods...But do such mixed-use developments offer a workable, long-term model for rejuvenating cities like St. Paul?"

Source: Pioneer Planet, February 22, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.