Minnesota’s largest city is recognized as one of the top cities in the U.S. for cycling. In the Copenhagenize Index, ...

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A research project by the UMN’s Human Factors Safety Laboratory (HFSL) evaluated the effectiveness of both temporary (i.e., ...

Names are important. What do these locally named places and streets tell us about who we are, where we come from, and what we ...

Mapping Prejudice, at the University of Minnesota, helps us to understand the history of housing discrimination in the Twin Cities—and to participate in mapping it.

Mapping Prejudice, at the University of Minnesota, helps us to understand the history of housing discrimination in the Twin Cities—and to participate in mapping it.

Recently I came across a drawing featured in the 1970 new years’ issue of The Dong-A Ilbo (“East Asia Daily”), a Korean newspaper of record. It is a fantastical vision of what was then 30 years into ...

Against all odds, futuristic delusions of national construction in South Korea transformed a pitiful backwater into a prosperous country. As Minnesota today faces its own hostile intermeddling, is ...

What goes into running a non-profit like Streets.mn? Let’s take a moment to hear from the board members who make it all possible!

Transit has always been mostly an inner-city thing. It struggles in the suburbs, where lower densities, greater distances between destinations and inadequate pedestrian infrastructure stack the deck ...

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series by Zak Yudhishthu on inclusionary zoning. Inclusionary zoning (IZ) is a widespread tool for developing affordable housing in the United States.

Governor Walz’s 2026 supplemental budget recommendations landed in March, and if you were hoping for good news on transit, biking, or walking infrastructure, you’re going to need to look pretty hard.