Smart transportation tools: how Metro Transit uses technology to ensure a smooth ride
Metro Transit recently launched its first free mobile app; more features will be added to it this year, including enhanced and advanced trip planning.
Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre writes about dance.
A walk in the woonerfs: rethinking a realm for bicyclists, pedestrians and cars
Woonerfs are catching on in cities across Europe, as well as in Seattle and in Minneapolis.
The city as your living room: Will micro apartments go macro in MSP?
The proposed Village Green Development, an 18-story apartment complex, would include 22 percent micro apartments.
We are North: repositioning MSP’s national identity for the 21st century
“We need a new narrative,” says U of M College of Design Dean Tom Fisher. Or perhaps a new brand.
The complete city: why density and amenities are essential to everyday urban living
What are the amenities needed to support a dense urban environment? The answers go beyond nightlife and restaurants.
Solar Twin Cities: Where urban farming, social justice, green tech and sustainable living meet
Here’s a sneak peek at the Boyce-Olson Home, the Tiny Diner and the Habitat for Humanity Net Zero Home.
Sound.Art MIA and engaging new museum audiences
Museums across the Twin Cities are re-thinking traditional museum practices, to attract and increase engagement with untapped audiences.
Q&A: Alexis Ohanian on creative entrepreneurship, and giving lots of damns
The cofounder of the social news site reddit is the author of “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made Not Managed.”
Sage Cowles: A dance activist’s life
“The key thing that people remember about Sage is that she was an artist,” says the Walker Art Center’s Philip Bither.
Architect Scott Ervin launches Norseman: Minneapolis’ first micro-distillery
“So many people think premium vodka has to come from Europe,” Ervin says. “It doesn’t. Some of the best ingredients are grown right here in the Midwest.”
Galtier Community School embraces design thinking for greater flexibility in learning
Come next autumn, when Galtier reopens, the school “is going to be a magnetic place,” says Kate Wilcox-Harris, who describes the initiative as transformative.
Q&A: David Graham, the city-building architect, and his ecosystem approach to density
His practice is based on urban-planning principles that marry modern architecture’s spirit and invention with a profound understanding of history, urban evolution, and context.
Brewers and architects spark the next brewpub boom — along the Green Line
A slew of new breweries have built out spaces in which patrons can sip and sample while observing the brewing process.
The real-estate developer as artist: Peter Remes
In three years, since Remes founded First & First, he’s transformed several downtrodden sites in Minneapolis into creative hubs for work and play.
In Minneapolis, garages serve as galleries, theaters
For artist/gallerist Pete Driessen and the theater artists of Off-Leash Area, turning their garages into art spaces provided opportunities for innovation, experimentation and freedom.
The challenges of building ‘the essential house’
Daniel Yudchitz decided to design and build a small, low-cost, energy-efficient house in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. Then came the banks.
At the U of M, a confab for designers who want to change the world
The Structures for Inclusion program focused on the presentation of the SEED Awards, which celebrate excellence in social, economic, and environmental design.
Turning a modernist classic green in Highland Park
When Heather and Brent Fredrickson bought a modernist house in a historic Saint Paul neighborhood, they remodeled, adding a 21st-century environmental ethic to the home.
St. Paul’s TU Dance Center: movement in the neighborhood
When Uri Sands and Toni Pierce-Sands decided to establish a multicultural dance school, they put it along the Central Corridor in the heart of the city.
Growing new art ideas along the Central Corridor
Far from simply decorating the light-rail route, St. Paul’s Central Corridor Public Art Plan is redefining art in the public sphere.
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