Mike Jensvold East Isles
At 08:39 PM 9/8/2004, md wrote:
Such maps could promote the pedestrian culture that Gary Hoover advocates and help travelers, visitors and new residents learn more about our neighborhoods. When Jerry Rekuski of Rekuski Paint of Northeast Minneapolis retired a few months ago, I discovered a roll of maps of Northeast Minneapolis from 1986-87 in his store.
The maps featured streets and businesses in a boldly colored richly diverse design by Gary Whitney for the "Our Town" poster people. Each business or landmark was represented and a unique label appeared on each one.
With such a map you'd know where everything was, and get a "graphic" sense of the character of the neighborhood.
...I've got a similar map of the University of Minnesota campus from 1979!
Larger maps could be displayed in businesses and organizations (and partially funded by them) smaller maps could be put on traffic boxes with graffitti proof laminate. Electronic interactive versions of each map could be downloaded for home PCs or handheld computers.
Existing NRP grants could also partially fund the maps, and an artist from each neighborhood could design the map.
Madeline Douglass Kingfield
----- Original Message ----- From: John McClellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: [Mpls] Neat idea - post neighborhood maps on signal boxes
> Here's a link to a neat project being done in > Victoria, BC. They are posting color maps on the > traffic signal boxes around town. Provides a nice > service, cheaply, and also may help reduce graffiti > problems on the boxes. > > http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/000950.html > > I could see this being done here, not only Downtown, > but also along the LRT corridor and near some of the > more heavily foot trafficed/touristy areas like by the > Lakes, Uptown, 50th/France, etc. > > Should be fairly cheap to do, maybe even request a > donation to defray costs from local business in > exchange for a larger font or a small advert box?
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