[TCMetro] Fwd: [Mpls] city vs. suburbs (fwd)

Eva Young Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:05:15 -0800

There is quite the city vs suburbs thread on the Minneapolis Issues list. I think this is a good forum to discuss this with less heat and more light.

I'm curious what folks here think of Pedestrian Friendly districts. There is a bit of a controversy over starting one of these on West Broadway. I've recently moved into the area -- I'm 4 blocks away from West Broadway - and I'm rather fond of the Lyn Lake area with coffeeshops and funky places like Intermedia Arts and Bryant Lake Bowl. Dyna Slutyer wrote on the Minneapolis Issues list that this is just South Minneapolis snobbery wanting to move into North Minneapolis.

I'd encourage folks on this list to go drive along Glenwood Av. That is an area that seems to have so much potential.

So anyway, I suppose I might be a latte drinking snob to kind of like pedestrian friendly spaces in the urban scene.

Eva Young
Near North

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For those of you who are interested, there is very interesting analysis of
the new suburbanization in the United States by David Brooks in the Weekly
Standard.  "Patio-Man and the Sprawl People: America's Newist Suburbs."

It even mentions Minneapolis.

The Weekly Standard is conservative weekly magazine of politics, social
comment, and art.

The link is:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/001/531wlvng.asp

Perhaps we can use some of the ideas from Brooks's article to anticipate
the trends and discuss possible policy responses for dealing with such
social and economic change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area.

Trust me, the 2 part article is well worth reading.

David Wilson
Loring Park

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Eva Young
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