What if the University of Minnesota had 100,000 students?
There are numerous economies of scale to be had from a larger school.
David Levinson
David Levinson is a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems (NEXUS) research group. He also blogs at The Transportationist. Levinson has authored or edited several books, including Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport and numerous peer reviewed articles. He is the editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use.
Who benefits from other people’s transit use?
The argument that increased transit service reduces traffic congestion is often raised but doesn’t really hold up.
It’s not the suburbs, it’s mid-late 20th century urban design, planning, engineering, and architecture
American urbanists like to criticize “the suburbs,” but this isn’t really fair.
Farebox recovery: The economics of public transit
Could Metro Transit raise fares to better cover its operating costs?
How a chance encounter in St. Paul almost prevented World War II
St. Paul gave Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin his first balloon flight and infected him with the aviation bug.
In praise of contiguity
The problem with making Minneapolis a first rate pedestrian city is the lack of contiguity. There are some really good walkable sections, but they are not connected well (or at all).
Won’t you take me to … Dinkytown
Just remember, “Dinkytown is the new Uptown.”
It can’t happen here: Preparing the Twin Cities for the worst
Because we, the righteous, live in the blessed Midwest, we do not face God’s Wrath. We are protected against all natural disasters. But humor me.
