Grocery stores in North Minneapolis expose how land use, supermarket redlining and policy choices shape food access, and what ...

How do you take something as technical as designing a street layout and make it accessible to the majority of people?

Minnesota’s largest city is recognized as one of the top cities in the U.S. for cycling. In the Copenhagenize Index, ...

A research project by the UMN’s Human Factors Safety Laboratory (HFSL) evaluated the effectiveness of both temporary (i.e., ...

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Empowering Small Minnesota Communities program examined challenges in east central Minnesota, identified strategies to ...

Recently I came across a drawing featured in the 1970 new years’ issue of The Dong-A Ilbo (“East Asia Daily”), a Korean newspaper of record. It is a fantastical vision of what was then 30 years into ...

Biking to the fair — which opens tomorrow (Thursday, August 21) and runs through Labor Day — is also an excellent way to ...

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater ...

In this series of stories, we’ll explore local names—where do these names come from, why do they matter, and more. We often talk about what we do with “the land” but I think what we name the land has ...

Stopping to take in the Mississippi River views from the Ford Bridge after the July Kidical Mass ride which terminated across the river at the Wabun wading pool. Credit: Morgan Radick ...

Often discussions around urban planning and housing focus on what’s to come and where we go from wherever we are now. But in the Twin Cities there’s also a long history to understand and to repair.