Talk:Neighborhoods of Minneapolis

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[edit] Other business districts

What a bore for the previous author to ONLY mention Uptown and Dinkytown as known unofficial business districts -- which happen to be the most white might I mention. How about we see a mention of Eat Street on Nicollet Avenue (which has actually spurred condo development derived from its district name unlike the "popular" ones), West Broadway, East Lake Street and Midtown, Lyn-Lake (which is NOT Uptown), 50th and France Avenue, Warehouse District. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davumaya (talk • contribs) 17:43, January 4, 2007

[edit] Communities AND Neighborhoods

There should be a section here for communities as well as neighborhoods, with a better explanation of their differences. The city breaks itself down into communities composed of neighborhoods. The communities should be listed as well(see map of Minneapolis). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.211.122 (talk • contribs) 21:28, June 1, 2005

[edit] Lake St isn't only E-W running street that isn't a number.

The information on E-W running streets could use a little attention. Franklin is an exception to the stated rule. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edkohler (talk • contribs) 20:01, November 8, 2005

[edit] Phillips Map

It might be noted that the graphic accompanying the article is outdated. Phillips has since been split into different neighorhoods: Ventura Village, West Phillips, East Phillips, and Midtown. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.73.52.36 (talk) 23:45, 1 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Other notes about the map

It would be good if we could get a map to specify where each neighborhood is; like is done for Minnesota on its page, highlighted within the map of the United States. Highlighting each neighborhood within a map of Minneapolis would be a nice feature for the neighborhood articles. matt91486 01:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

This has now been done. Eco84 | Talk 18:44, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I would propose we further your efforts by updating the map to possibly do a few things such as all the names of the neighborhoods (more for clicking on larger veresions) so that visitors will always know where they are in relation to other neighborhoods. A real super-badaz advancement is to actually have the map be clickable to go to different neighborhoods. A different option would be to indicate landmarks such as downtown Minneapolis, the Mississippi River, 35W, 94, etc.
Also lastly, I am thinking about a bloated master map for demonstration purposes which shows all the n'hoods, communities, landmarks, and districts and informal places. .:DavuMaya:. 09:34, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposals for template change

I have created two alternatives to the current Minneapolis neighborhood template. They are available for viewing on the template talk page. The two templates categorize each neighborhood according to what community it is located in. Currently, the communities and neighborhoods are listed separate from each other. Eco84 | Talk 00:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

  • I like alternative #1 best. Good job.--Appraiser 11:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unofficial designations

Since Neighborhoods of Minneapolis is mostly about official neighborhoods, I've reworked the commercial districts section into "unofficial neighborhoods." Most of the content is still there, just reframed to note the different ways unofficial neighborhoods relate to the official neighborhoods. I'd suggest that further discussion of commercial districts go to the general Minneapolis, Minnesota article.--Natcase 03:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

And I just did something similar for "Local areas" renaming it "City regions." Any better titles are welcomed. I took the previous authors' lead in tying the section together by street suffixes (N,S,E,W,NE,SE) and tried to just make it all make sense. Anyway, folks please have at it...--Natcase 04:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes..... crap, I hate it when you guys record each individual edit you do instead of more mass edits :) Its harder to track what has been changed. Anyway, it looks better but still not great. I can't imagine a better way to organize this information yet. Oddly we know more about the "unofficial" Minneapolis than the official one. Perhaps the next goal should be to gather actual information on each neighborhood to determine an overall history of how neighborhoods came into effect. I think as an encyclopedic article, people will want to know the history more than what currently exists as we see it because they can always go to Wikitravel for Uptown-esque info. .:DavuMaya:. 20:57, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

If you have Javascript enabled, on the History page there are two columns which you can use to select two versions, then press the button to view the differences between those two versions. Just as if there had been a single large edit. -- SEWilco (talk) 04:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Map of neighborhoods

I've tagged the image Image:Mpls.png as having no source information. I'm pretty sure the image is from the city's website [1] and if so would not be a work of the federal government. Someone might want to create a free map of Minneapolis to replace it. Eóin (talk) 22:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I've created a replacement, but it's not the greatest. Seeing how Image:Mpls.png has been deleted, it'll have to do until someone can make a better one. Eco84 | Talk 00:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC)