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No Parking and De-Signing Streets - May 20, 2013 - 14 comments
Podcast #35 – Twin Cities Greenways with Dacia Durham and Matthew Hendricks - May 16, 2013 - 0 comments
The Yard at Downtown East - May 15, 2013 - 7 comments
Minnesota Vikings Stadium Needs Better Urban Design - May 14, 2013 - 24 comments
Clarifying the Minneapolis Event Rate Meter Parking Debacle - May 13, 2013 - 3 comments
Podcast #34 – The Future of Car Sharing with Christopher Bineham - May 13, 2013 - 2 comments
SPUD - May 11, 2013 - 14 comments
Washington Avenue proposed layouts are posted - May 11, 2013 - 17 comments
Streets Weekend: Hooray! Hooray! May 11 is National Train Day! - May 10, 2013 - 2 comments
Streets.mn Voter Guide – Chris Lautenschlager, Ward 12 - May 10, 2013 - 0 comments
2035 Predictions for Washington Avenue Offer Precision Without Accuracy - May 10, 2013 - 4 comments
The electric future is quietly arriving - May 10, 2013 - 3 comments
Let’s stop calling people “NIMBYs” - May 9, 2013 - 4 comments
Too Little Parking? It Does Happen, In Fact - May 9, 2013 - 6 comments
Traffic on Washington Avenue – Raw data edition - May 9, 2013 - 6 comments
Time Evolution of Twin Cities - May 9, 2013 - 1 comments
We Must Build More Transit and Better Urbanism - May 8, 2013 - 5 comments
Podcast #33 – Minneapolis Ward 4 with City Council Candidate Kris Brogan - May 7, 2013 - 2 comments
1st Annual Minneapolis Bike ‘n’ Brew Tour - May 7, 2013 - 13 comments
“Downtown is For People” Fifty-five Years Later - May 7, 2013 - 0 comments
Minneapolis Should Focus on Data When Selecting Car-Sharing Provider - May 7, 2013 - 5 comments
The case for (and against) public subsidy for roads - May 6, 2013 - 7 comments
Washington Avenue Traffic Projections - May 2, 2013 - 13 comments
Podcast #32 – Talking Walking with Members of the Minneapolis Pedestrian Advisory Committee - May 2, 2013 - 2 comments
Why Beards are like Good Urbanism - May 2, 2013 - 4 comments
The road to Maple Plain is legislated with good intentions - April 29, 2013 - 10 comments
Why I’m proud to be “offended” by the judgemental map of Minneapolis - April 29, 2013 - 17 comments
Why Do We Need Laws To Prevent Parking in Bike Lanes? - April 27, 2013 - 7 comments
Podcast #31 – Minneapolis Ward 13 with City Council Candidate Linea Palmisano - April 26, 2013 - 0 comments
The Metropolitan Council’s anti-urban headquarters - April 26, 2013 - 4 comments

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