Columbia Heights

Old houses with large porch and colorful siding

Inner Suburbs Face Identity Crisis

Places like Columbia Heights, an older suburb north of Minneapolis, lie at the focal point of conflict over development and gentrification. Can these places support a 21st-century urbanism?

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