Friday
Feb252011
River Life Slideshow from River Talk
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:00PMFrom River Talk:
Back in January we pulled together a mini-presentation that is becoming our digital elevator speech.
The River Hub - Minneapolis Riverfront News
Preserve.Revitalize.Connect.
Gold Medal Park to Be Preserved for 50 Years
Letter to the Editor - Ideas for the Minneapolis Riverfront
Entries from February 1, 2011 - February 28, 2011
Thursday
Feb242011
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition Gets Grant Money to Help Mississippi River in Minneapolis
From KSTP:
Approved grant money will be used to help educate Minneapolis residents and business owners about decreasing negative impacts on the Mississippi River.
Monday
Feb212011
Mississippi River Stories by Twin Cities Teens
This is an article from 2009 that is still relevant and worth a read in light of the just completed Riverfront Design Competition.
From River Talk:
Young people from disadvantaged communities within the Twin Cities have been involved in restoration of Mississippi River natural areas for years through programs of the Community Design Center of Minnesota.
Tuesday
Feb152011
Critical Area Repeal Advancing — Vital River Protections Threatened
From FMR:
An effort is afoot at the Minnesota Legislature to roll back vital environmental protections for the Mississippi River Corridor Critical Area (MRCCA) — a 72-mile protected corridor from Dayton to Hastings. Bills have been introduced in the House and Senate to repeal 2009 amendments to Minn. Statutes §116G.15, which directed the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to update 35-year-old standards and guidelines for river corridor development through state rules.
Friday
Feb112011
On the Shoulders of Giants
From River Talk:
None of us works alone, and none of us is the first person ever to think and act to rejuvenate a riverfront. Those of us fortunate to work on the future of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis truly stand "on the shoulders of giants."
We lost one of those giants last month, when Betsy Doermann, former secretary of the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Board and staff at the Minnesota Historical Society, died at 79.
Thursday
Feb102011
Winner Announced in Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition
From The Journal:
TLS/KVA, a design coalition led by California-based Tom Leader Studio and Maryland-based Kennedy & Violich Architecture, has beat out 54 teams from around the globe to win the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition.
Thursday
Feb102011
Winner of Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition Announced
From Mill City Times:
TLS/KVA was named the winner of the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition today during a press conference at the Nicollet Island Pavilion. View the presentation and detailed proposal below:
Thursday
Feb102011
Minneapolis Riverfront Design Team Picked
From the Star Tribune:
The selection is part of a Minneapolis effort to provide more parks, recreation and jobs along the Mississippi River north of the Stone Arch Bridge.
Tuesday
Feb082011
OnEarth - Artists Design New Links to the Mississippi River
From OnEarth Magazine:
The finalists have names like City of the River and Streamlines. They're all visions for reconnecting the city of Minneapolis to the Mississippi riverfront.
Monday
Feb072011
River Talk - What Should the Future Minneapolis Riverfront Be? Ask the Public!
From River Talk:
Public participation in planning/design projects is a funny thing. Everyone talks about it; lots of people do something that they think of as "public engagement"; few practitioners really take it seriously; fewer still make public participation central to the project itself.
This isn't the time or venue for a full-blown treatise on public engagement for riverfront projects, but let me say that the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition has employed three strategies in particular that are noteworthy: youth involvement through a design imagination exercise, a "designer ask" survey, and collection of comments regarding the four finalists' proposals.
