Stress relief

[Nathan]

Minnesota and Dayton get the onion treatment.

http://www.theonion.com/article/states- ... any--36230

[Nathan]

The onion gets listy.

Best places to raise a family.

http://www.theonion.com/slideshow/10-be ... ly-37391#0

[mulad]

Millennials don't exist!

[mister.shoes]

Post #110,000 if I counted right.

[mulad]

Turns out the world's largest audio tape cartridge format originated at 3M in St. Paul:

[seamonster]

This is not relieving my stress...but it is very interesting.

[mister.shoes]

[BoredAgain]

http://www.mcmansionhell.com/

[mister.shoes]

OK, that's a ton of fun.

[grant1simons2]

I just discovered this video and thought of all you transit nerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuD288 ... Y0RC_k9fvV

[seanrichardryan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comme ... h_out_for/

[Nathan]

Cyclist clearly loves signaling turns.

http://www.theonion.com/article/cyclist ... urns-54045

[seanrichardryan]

This has been an on going joke at my house. I'm glad someone has finally raised the question.

http://m.startribune.com/what-s-with-al ... ection=%2F

[grant1simons2]

Trains!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQKnuQOXb8

[FISHMANPET]

Season 2 of Great American Railroad Journeys on BBC visited our fair city. The Minneapolis episode won't air for two weeks, but for about 2 seconds in the intro (starting at 14 seconds in) you can see him getting on the light rail and Lake St. So close to me and I missed it. He could have signed my Bradshaw's!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRbnQjPZGss

[grant1simons2]

I see this is the place where we post about train videos?

http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/779197

[Nathan]

Really cool aerial history of Minneapolis. Good information and great drone videography.

https://www.airvuz.com/video/Minneapoli ... 72c02292ef

[Bob Stinson's Ghost]

Really cool aerial history of Minneapolis. Good information and great drone videography.

https://www.airvuz.com/video/Minneapoli ... 72c02292ef

This was cool and informative, but after a while an overlay appeared demanding that I log in with FB or Google. The first time it appeared it had an x to dismiss it, but the second time it wouldn't go away.

It's a reminder that Minneapolis loves to tear things down in the name of "progress". This is a city which desperately wants to be "modern". Apparently we still agree with Henry Ford that "history is bunk". It's part of how Minneapolis differentiates it self from Saint Paul, it's sentimental sister.

What do you think, urbanists? Had the Metropolitan outlived it's usefulness? Would you prefer it over what's on the site now?

[RailBaronYarr]

I think that cities across the world have a long history of tearing down and rebuilding themselves, done both by private and public actors, sometimes for generally pure/rational reasons and sometimes not so much. I wouldn't say Minneapolis has any more of a tendency toward doing this out of a sense of "progress" than anyone else, but even if it did I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing. Progress means letting more people and businesses share where we already live and work, which can (and often does) have all sorts of great benefits like expanding opportunities for people (education, social, work, whatever). It means upgrading our building stock to be safer, healthier, more efficient, etc.

Weighing the pros and cons of any individual building or district lost to destruction as some narrative for the city as a whole is useless IMO. We've got entire neighborhoods that look basically exactly the same in 2018 as they did in 1960, but for the style of the cars parked out on the curb. The vast majority of parcels in this town haven't been redeveloped since they saw the first foundation poured (whenever that may have been).

[VacantLuxuries]

It's a reminder that Minneapolis loves to tear things down in the name of "progress". This is a city which desperately wants to be "modern". Apparently we still agree with Henry Ford that "history is bunk". It's part of how Minneapolis differentiates it self from Saint Paul, it's sentimental sister.

Implying St. Paul didn't use the freeway to clear neighborhoods in front of the capitol and Rondo. They just spared properties in their downtown long enough for them to become the good kind of old/historic and not just old. The fact that we tend to focus more on Minneapolis' destruction and largely give St. Paul a free pass since they didn't demolish the "good buildings" is a bit suspect.