Minneapolis Downtown 2010
Author : Metro 2010 Steering Committee (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Central business districts
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Author : Metro 2010 Steering Committee (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Central business districts
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Author : Downtown Development Task Force (Minneapolis, Minn.).
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Central business districts
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Author : Iric Nathanson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439659273
Downtown Minneapolis evolved from a collection of modest frame buildings on the banks of the Mississippi River to the high-rise center of a modern American metropolis. With a burgeoning milling industry powering the local economy, the early frame structures soon gave way to substantial brick and masonry buildings, lining the streets of a bustling 19th-century commercial district. Downtown continued to prosper during the early years of the 20th century, aided by advances in transportation and communications. The heart of the city held its own during the Great Depression and World War II, but the postwar era brought new challenges as a suburban boom threatened the city's economic foundation. Enterprising local leaders responded with innovative developments to meet these challenges, and a reinvigorated downtown took on a new role as the site of a dynamic new residential community, now home to nearly 40,000 city residents.
Author : Iric Nathanson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1467112763
"With the Mississippi River's only true waterfalls at its front door, Minneapolis harnessed the power of the falls to become an international milling center. Changing market conditions, though, forced Minnesota's largest city to give up its preeminent position in the milling world after World War I. As the local milling industry gradually faded away, Minneapolis turned its back on its riverfront origins. By 1950, a once-bustling commercial area along the banks of the Mississippi had become an industrial wasteland. Then, a decade later, the seeds of renewal were planted when some urban pioneers recognized the potential of this long-ignored historic district. By the first decade of the 21st century, the riverfront had reemerged as a vibrant residential, cultural, and recreational center."--Publisher's website.
Author : David Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Central business districts
ISBN : 9780931714832
Presents a galaxy of portraits of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul as they evolved over 150 years from frontier river towns into the dominant cultural and economic centers of the Upper Midwest.
Author : Minneapolis (Minn.). City Planning Commission
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1963
Category : City planning
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Author : James Eli Shiffer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1452950199
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele. The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories re-create the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.
Author : Iric Nathanson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,78 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0873518055
Flavored with contemporary newspaper quotations and illustrated with period images, this political history inspires greater understanding of a preeminent American city.
Author : Marjorie Pearson
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Downtown West Neighborhood (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Author : Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : City planning
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