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Fourplexes, Freeways, and Fearmongering
I’m very tired of white people using the words “bulldozing” and “eminent domain” to spread fear and misinformation about the 2040 Comp Plan, when literal city blocks of communities of color were...
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How the 2017 Ward 3 Election in Minneapolis Foreshadows Our Local Political...
Every Monday, I listen to the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast where editors and reporters dive into the week’s news and trends through a data-driven lens. On April 8, the group discussed Clare...
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National Links: Dealing with the Heat
Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater...
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Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and...
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Encouraging Diversity (and Hot Dog Eating) on Streets.mn
Ideas for encouraging diversity on streets.mn On the afternoon of Memorial Day a small group of streets.mn writers met in a sunny Minneapolis backyard to explore our ideas and concerns surrounding...
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Chart of the Day: Biking (Ethnicity) in Memphis
[Note: this post is best read while listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DFu7oWit0.] An interesting chart from the Strong Towns blog showing biking rates in Memphis, Tennessee...
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Chart of the Day: US Homeownership by Race 1994 – 2009
There was a fascinating post the other day on Matthew Kahn’s excellent Environmental and Urban Economics blog that detailed some counter-intuitive data about racial inequality in the US. One of the...
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Map Monday: The Second Great African-American Migration
Here’s a timely map for you for MLK day, showing the “second migration” of African-Americans from the South to the North following World War II. Here’s the map showing how regional migration followed...
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The Miracle of Two Minneapolises in Prenatal Care
While looking around for some data for another project, I ran into Minneapolis Health Department’s Reports. There’s a lot of great data there, but not all of it is necessarily in amazing condition for...
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The Mall of America: A Case Study in Public Space Ideological Differences
In the span of just a few months, the Mall of America (MOA) became the center of two debates regarding peoples’ rights in quasi-public spaces. On December 20th, 2014 the Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
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The Right Scale for Thinking Inequality
Two weeks ago, the Atlantic published a short (and facile) post called “the Miracle of Minneapolis” that (as is the way of media circles in insecure places) launched itself right onto the forefront of...
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Chart of the Day: Racial Inequality in Wealth over Time
People often talk about income inequality, but wealth inequality is its cumulative effect (compounded by things like real estate value and other assets). When you start talking about wealth, race, and...
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The Lee House: Preserving a Relic of Racism
Arthur and Edith Lee house. Photo by Scott Shaffer. There is a modest, white house at the corner of 46th Street East and Columbus Avenue South in Minneapolis’s Field neighborhood. The architecture of...
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The Theory Behind the 1935 Saint Paul Slum Map
I’ve seen the amazing Minneapolis slum map a few times on the internet, including a nicely colored version with much more legible text. Anyway, from the Met Council’s compelling Choice, Place, and...
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Charting Residential Stability and Race
Image by flickr user Rick. I hate moving. It takes physical, mental, and emotional energy. It’s expensive to pay for security deposits, non-refundable pet deposits, first month’s rent and last month’s...
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