http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, $3 million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ http://joe-urban.com 612-251-4662 3913 29th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And stop calling me Shirley! This week's response to last Sunday's Strib article about skyways suggests that we look to Venice for ideas about our skyway system is creative at best, loopy at worst, I cannot decide. What I do know is it would be horrendously expensive and legally impossible ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/surely-you-cant-be-serious/ While my post on this website and at Streets.mn suggesting that we gradually remove the skyways from downtown Minneapolis over a 50-year timeline got a couple compliments and a rebuke by Streets.mn's own David Levinson, it was also picked up by the Star Tribune. In that piece, Minneapolis mayor R.T. ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/those-skyways-wont-go-down-without-a-fight/ It is a common rule of thumb that stores and malls achieve maximum parking usage on the last Saturday before Christmas. If this is true, then take a look at this photo, taken at 1:30PM on Saturday, December 17th, 2011, of the Target store parking lot in Midtown, at Lake ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/time-to-develop-on-the-target-midtown-parking-lot/ The following post shares a similar argument as an article I wrote four years ago for the Downtown Journal (in Minneapolis). I was chastised at the time and suppose I will be again. However, with the recent opening of a new, million skyway link to better connect the Accenture ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-those-pesky-skyways/ Are we doing enough to create good cities and urbanism? Due to property rights, we cannot always control exactly what is built on private land, but we can certainly have a say in the ever-so-important public realm. An article earlier this month entitled Treasuring Urban Oases, featuring renowned urbanist Alexander ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-importance-of-the-public-realm-our-space/ The proposed streetcar took a huge step forward last week, according to the UrbanCincy website. Rustwire pointed out the challenges and obstacles overcome to get to this point. And I'm glad, because the city deserves it. And most of all, this new transportation improvement will complement some land use improvements ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/a-streetcar-victory-in-cincinnati/ John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, wrote a recent piece in the Atlantic Cities entitled The Case for Congestion. In it, he sensibly explains that cities must recognize that traffic and congestion are often a sign of dynamism, and by moving traffic too well, ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/john-norquists-case-for-congestion/ Major grocers are increasingly finding ways to open stores in urban neighborhoods (see my ULI article from May, 2011), but it isn’t easy. As was presented at Developing Walkable Urban Groceries in Mixed-Use Environments at the ULI Fall Meeting, getting the design of the grocery store right, while accommodating residential ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/urban-grocers/ There is an opportunity to create a more humane, livable Hiawatha Avenue, and, to try out a metaphor, now may be the time to step out in to the intersection and begin our journey across. Hiawatha Avenue should become an urban boulevard that unites neighborhoods rather than divides them, particularly ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/the-urban-future-of-hiawatha-avenue/ Much has been speculated about the death of the mall and what to do about it, and solutions vary. One very innovative re-use of an aging, enclosed mall can be found in Austin, Texas, where a local community college is taking over the space, and a developer partner is proposing ... http://joe-urban.com/archive/reviving-a-dying-mall-in-austin/