Minneapolis
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The YIMBYs are coming for your single-family neighborhood
Many U.S. cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
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Walk Score is now ranking bikeability
The folks who brought you Walk Score, an online tool that ranks neighborhoods based on whether you can get anywhere on foot, are expanding to appeal to the biking crowd. This tool is a little more limited (only 10 cities have been scored) but it’s also more in-depth: Walk Score will assume you can stroll […]
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Road hogs: Minneapolis cyclists don’t need to share
Last year, the City of Lakes stole the title of most bike friendly burg in America -- and rightly so. You have to ride it to believe it.
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Minneapolis? More like Bike-opolis
A commitment to bolstering bike-friendliness means that the bigger twin city now rivals Portland as the country's best cycling town.
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Bikeshare makes for a Nice Ride in Minneapolis [VIDEO]
The bikeshare system in Minneapolis is only one year old, but already it's being counted as a big success.
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Top 10 greenest cities in North America
It seems like we get a new list of greenest, most climate-change-prepared, most bike-friendly etc. cities every week or so. But we never really get tired of looking at these rankings, and checking them against each other to decide where we should fantasize about moving. Today, it's a list of the top greenest cities in North America from Siemens and the Economist Intelligence Unit. This ranking takes into account carbon emissions, land use, transportation, energy usage, buildings, water and air quality, waste, and environmental governance.
Drumroll please for the top 10:
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Minneapolis to open 12 vacant lots to gardening
Minneapolis is opening up 12 vacant lots across the city to groups that will turn them into community gardens, because a lot strewn with tomatoes and strawberries sure beats one strewn with empty McDonald's cups. There's a long tradition of using empty space in cities for community gardens, and these programs can go wonky when […]
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Making bread with Rustica Bakery — then bread pudding [VIDEO]
When it comes to choosing subject matter for my show, my reasoning varies: Sometimes I think about what the audience might want to see; oftentimes it has to do with what's in season. This week it was purely selfish: I wanted to get inside my favorite bakery.
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The year ahead in bikes
Elly Blue looks into her crystal ball and sees more bike lanes, more bike-sharing, more e-bikes -- and the best year ever for two-wheelers in the U.S.