Changes - USA - Successful cities adapt
Changes ahead for streets and buses - Downtown Minneapolis is moving toward 24-hour model
Minneapolis, St. Paul, MINN, USA - Star Tribune: Editorial - Dec 2, 2005: -- When automobiles gave rise to suburban living and shopping, Minneapolis responded by pulling up streetcar tracks, building skyways, clearing huge expanses for parking lots and turning downtown streets into wide, one-way commuter funnels for rush-hour traffic... Now, 50 years later, that model is obsolete... Central Minneapolis is becoming a 24-hour city -- not just a zone for commuters to "borrow" on workdays but a multilayered community for jobs, housing, shopping and entertaining... A new urbanized transportation scheme is required... Despite those difficulties, the city would be unwise to ignore the market trends that are reshaping its central districts. We offer three initial suggestions. Major destinations (museums, stadiums, theaters, etc.) should be factored in. The beauty and quality of public spaces should be emphasized. And, the advantages of walking and street-greening should be taken into account.
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