Minneapolis-St. Paul

by Adams, John S.; Vandrasek, Barbara J.

• ISBN13: 9780816622368
• ISBN10: 0816622361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

The Twin Cities are an outstanding place to live, work, play, and participate in an active civic life. Lakes, extensive Parklands, natural preserves, and the urban forest play a large role in drawing people to the Twin Cities and keeping them here.
Enhanced with maps, photographs, and graphs, Minneapolis-St. Paul is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book available on the metro area and its unique social, economic, political, and physical environment. This impressive and entertaining compilation of information will be useful for present and prospective residents of the Twin Cities, real-estate brokers and developers, local government officials, city planners, public-relations representatives, students of urban geography and sociology and land-use planners.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Character of the Place	p. 2
The First Century and a Half	p. 28
Inside the Central Cities: Land Use, People, and Neighborhoods	p. 56
Postwar Suburban Growth and Consequences for the Central Cities	p. 90
Recycling the Central Cities: Infrastructure Change at the Core	p. 118
The Suburbs and Beyond: Living, Working, and Planning for the Future	p. 170
Notes	p. 211
Sources	p. 217
Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 219
Index	p. 227
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