Minnesota
Friday Funny: Concerned, Obstinate Citizen Impacts Local Planning
Irv Draper fought ten long years to save taxpayers' money and ensure that a community pool would not be built.
Friday Funny: Minnesota Too Polite To Ask For Transit Funding
Minnesota is reluctance to request more interstate funding.
Condos Leading A Boom Market
Condominiums are the hot new real estate product in the Twin Cities—with nearly 11,000 new units expected in the next few years.
College, City Team Up To Build Affordable Homes
St. Cloud, MN, finds the right mix of student skills and city vision to breathe life into an older neighborhood.
New American Dream Being Shaped By Public Transit
The new American dream is being shaped by a growing transit network oflight-rail lines, subways, commuter rail and buses, writes Jennifer Dorn.
Minnesotans Support Expanding Public Transit
Poll finds support for expanding the public transportation system.
Minneapolis Names 'Results Manager'
Minneapolis has created a $108,000-a-year "results manager" position to oversee the city's efforts to be more responsive to its residents.
Market Moving To Smart Growth
Smart growth shows results in the Twin Cities.
The Maul Of America
A "city within a city" it's not.
Modernism And The Midwestern Landscape
An ambitious plan for 120 modernist houses at Mayo Woodlands in Rochester, Minnesota seeks to conserve land and honor the agricultural heritage of the property.
Twin Cities Buildings That Were Never Built
An architecture firm's website tracks 'phantom projects' -- unrealized dreams -- in the Twin Cities.
Small Towns With Creative Strategies
By adopting creative strategies, small towns revitalize spaces left behind by empty big boxes.
ExxonMobil Fights For Children, Against Public Housing
In a bizarre legal fight in Minnesota, the oil giant wants to stop eminent domain for a public housing project by claiming its own land is too polluted for residents.
Developers And Neighbors Clash Over Proposed Infill Development
A 6-acre housing development in the Twin Cities suburb of Mahtomedi exemplifies the battle being waged over the metro area's last pockets of open space.
Chic Houses from Recycled Materials
Made with translucent recycled materials, NowHaus homes are nice and environmentally friendly.
Minneapolis Billboard Swap
A city ordinance swaps neighborhood billboards for space along freeways and in downtown.
A Place For My Stuff
Storage condos are seen as a new way to "atttack suburban clutter".
Regionalism In Minneapolis-St. Paul
What Cleveland can learn from Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Light Rail Comes To Minnesota
Commuters get set to greet the 12-mile Hiawatha Line.
The Case For Regional Planning
Twin Cities' Metropolitan Council touted by some as a national model for metro-wide cooperation.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
New York City School Construction Authority
Village of Glen Ellyn
Central Transportation Planning Staff/Boston Region MPO
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
