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Seeking a photo curator
by flickr user Chris Yunker Are you a photographer, videographer, or just a lover of urban images? Streets.mn is seeking a volunteer to help us curate our flickr group. Through flickr, we’d like to...
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Welcome the streets.mn flickr moderators!
We had a pretty great response to our request for volunteer flickr moderators for the streets.mn photo pool. While there were many worthy candidates, two led the pack with their interesting ideas and...
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Friday Photo
Hello Streets.MN Readers, You were introduced to Joe and I back in March as the Streets.MN Flickr community curators. Starting today, and each Friday following, we’ll have a photo post with images from...
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Friday Photo – Horrible Bus Stops Edition
Hi Streets.mn, Here I am, the other half of Streets.mn’s Flickr page moderation duo, ostentatiously starting the fist of my bi-weekly photo posts with a whole bunch of my own photos! I hope you’ll...
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Friday Photo – Washington Avenue
Washington Avenue 2009 Washington Avenue 2013 The Green Line light rail project will connect downtown St. Paul with downtown Minneapolis and is set to begin service in 2014. I happen to work on this...
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Flashback 1970s: MTC Takes Over
MTC Bus, Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Early 1970s The Metropolitan Transit Commission (a division of the Metropolitan Council regional planning agency) took over the privately-owned Twin Cities...
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Photo Friday
My first choice photo happened to be one with snow in it, but I didn’t want to get too ahead of myself (/ruin everyone’s Friday) so here’s a cheerier image of Milwaukee Avenue in...
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Friday Photo – Multiplicity
What’s one of the most annoying things for people who care about urbanism? The fact that normal people don’t even notice it. But a photograph creates an aesthetic object which invites scrutiny. The...
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Friday Photo
Love them? Hate them? Love to hate them? A few views looking up, looking down and looking out of the Minneapolis Skyways.
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Friday Photo – Street Photography
The Minneapolis City Charter contains this provision: “When satisfied that the applicant is of good moral character and has met the requirements of this chapter, the director of licenses and consumer...
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Unique Piece of Urban History Hidden in Plain Sight
This year, 2013, marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of America’s first, and essentially its only[1], New-Town-In-Town. It also happens to be in our own backyard, Riverside Plaza. More often...
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Friday Photo – Cult of the Skyline
Type Minneapolis, or the name of most other U.S. cities (just not Detroit) into Google image search. Try Houston or Denver or Seattle. What do you see? Endless shots of glowing skylines. The downtown...
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Friday Photo – Rural Minnesota in the 1920′s
I came across this set of old photos from flickr user Ted Sherarts. The description of the set reads: “An old friend and retired newspaper reporter, Lawrence Spears agreed to the posting of these...
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Winter Bus Stops
This bus stop with over a foot of snow – now packed down, frozen and probably pretty slick – is seen here just outside of the St. Louis Park Rec Center. Now, with the recent streak of sub-zero...
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Friday Photo – Here We Go Again
There’s a charming little patch of Queen Anne style houses on 2nd ave. and 31st st. in South Minneapolis. For awhile now there’s been a proliferation of yard signs there opposing a freeway expansion....
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Friday Photo – Postcards of Minnesota
Today I’ve compiled a few vintage postcards from across Minnesota that I found here. Pretty interesting to see the train going across the Stone Arch Bridge.
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Friday Photo
Happy Friday, folks. Below is a shot of beautiful Fairbault, Minnesota from writer David Levinson. It looks like a cozy town, especially after watching their tourism video.
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Friday Photo – Winter parking
After yet another snowfall here in Minnesota, there were a lot of interesting parking strategies. Photo credit to flickr user akvamme.
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