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Minneapolis, History of Minneapolis, Minneapolis ¿ Saint Paul, Geography of Minneapolis, Demographics of Minneapolis, Economy of Minnesota, Arts in Minneapolis, Sports in Minnesota, Minneapolis City Council, Neighborhoods of Minneapolis. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 156 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Twin Cities Metro Street Atlas 2000 : King of Maps
For the Twin Cities and surrounding area, this is the best map book of it's kind.It has sections describing many of the important sites, great downtown maps for Minneapolis and St. Paul plus a number of the smallercites and towns near by.It has nice color detail, zip codes and easy touse directions for finding places of interest. ... Read more

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Potato City
I must say this book took me by surprise.I borrowed it from an uncle via my mother who said it was a good book.Many times her opinions fail to inspire me to actually finish the book in question.But this book is truly a gem.It has it all, history, environment, natural history, ecology, and an underlying message on modern urban development.

This book focuses on North Branch, Minnesota, a town I have been connected to my entire life.It began as a small farming community in east central Minnesota, but today is one of the fastest growing outer ring suburbs in our state.This book chronicles the town's beginnings, its present, and projects its future.Potatoes were the reason this community was born, but the coming of dairy farming altered the soil chemistry and the potato industry passed into history.

The author does a splendid job recreating this history, but this is no mere history book.It covers the natural environment and how the community dealt with (and continues to deal with) growth.Sue Leaf offers warnings to developing this area without proper care for the land being developed.The local ecosystems are in jeopardy if true environmentalism is not fully integrated into development plans.

This book focuses on one former farming community but in reality it could be Anywhere, USA by just changing a few of the details.I recommend this book for history lovers, ecology or natural history lovers, urban planners (or any who face the threat or the prospect of development, or anyone interested in reading a darn good book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 144 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 155 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 109 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Center City is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 582 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Chisago County. U.S. Route 8 serves as a main arterial route for the community. ... Read more

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Urban Studies

"A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading." William Julius Wilson

Offering a new vision of community-based regionalism, this book arrives just as "smart growth" measures and other attempts to link cities and suburbs are beginning to make their mark on the political and analytical scene. The authors make a powerful case for emphasizing equity, arguing that metropolitan areas must reduce poverty in order to grow and that low-income individuals must make regional connections in order to escape poverty.

A hard-hitting analysis of Los Angeles demonstrates that the roots of the unrest of 1992 lay in regional economic deterioration and that the recovery was slowed by insufficient attention to the poor. Regions That Work then provides a history and critique of community-development corporations, a statistical analysis of the poverty-growth relationship in seventy-four metro areas, a detailed study of three regions that have produced superior equity outcomes, and a provocative call for new policies and new politics.

Manuel Pastor Jr. is professor of Latin American and Latino studies and director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Peter Dreier is E. P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College and director of the Urban & Environmental PolicyProgram. J. Eugene Grigsby III is director of the Advanced Policy Institute and professor at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research. Marta Lpez-Garza is an assistantprofessor and holds a joint position in the Women's Studies Department and the Chicano/Chicana Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.

Globalization and Community Series, volume 6Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Siouxland is a vernacular region that encompasses the entire Big Sioux River drainage basin in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.A "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual interests, and a common identity. Such regions are "intellectual inventions" and a form of short-hand to identify things, people, and places. Vernacular regions reflect a "sense of place," but rarely coincide with established jurisdictional borders. ... Read more

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In contrast to Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, and other European thinkers engaged with the concept of the urban, American intellectuals tend to envision the modern city as a dystopia, their perception of urban life influenced by negative stereotypes and fictional depictions in popular culture. In Urban Encounters, Helen Liggett challenges this fatalism by approaching the city as a vibrant, lived space. Combining a sophisticated critique of the urban with striking, street-level images, Liggett reclaims the human experience of the city.

Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the urban experience. As a whole, Urban Encounters reimagines the city as a site of profound engagement with life.

Helen Liggett is professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University. She is coeditor (with David C. Perry) of Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory (1995), and her photographs have been exhibited at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. ... Read more