How do you take something as technical as designing a street layout and make it accessible to the majority of people?

Minnesota’s largest city is recognized as one of the top cities in the U.S. for cycling. In the Copenhagenize Index, ...

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A research project by the UMN’s Human Factors Safety Laboratory (HFSL) evaluated the effectiveness of both temporary (i.e., ...

Names are important. What do these locally named places and streets tell us about who we are, where we come from, and what we ...

Mapping Prejudice, at the University of Minnesota, helps us to understand the history of housing discrimination in the Twin Cities—and to participate in mapping it.

Mapping Prejudice, at the University of Minnesota, helps us to understand the history of housing discrimination in the Twin Cities—and to participate in mapping it.

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Recently I came across a drawing featured in the 1970 new years’ issue of The Dong-A Ilbo (“East Asia Daily”), a Korean newspaper of record. It is a fantastical vision of what was then 30 years into ...

What goes into running a non-profit like Streets.mn? Let’s take a moment to hear from the board members who make it all possible!

Here’s a question: Why does Saint Paul have so many more tunnels than Minneapolis? Because we keep Saint Paul boring! Indeed, Saint Paul’s geography has featured the subterranean since the very ...

Governor Walz’s 2026 supplemental budget recommendations landed in March, and if you were hoping for good news on transit, biking, or walking infrastructure, you’re going to need to look pretty hard.