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Item Citizen Input on Parks and Recreation in the City of Hugo, Minnesota (Volume 1 Summary Report)(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2010) Cedarleaf Dahl, ErikItem Citizen Input on Parks and Recreation in the City of Hugo, Minnesota—Volume 2: Technical Appendices(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2010) Cedarleaf Dahl, ErikItem Dayton Mississippi River Trail(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2009) Shively, Emily; Workman, JohnItem Duluth Values Open Space(2002) Kreag, Glenn MThis report documents how residents perceive the importance of open spaces in Duluth, Minnesota. While not specifically about water resources, this study refers occasionally to the value of wetlands, lakes and rivers. Key findings of the survey are extracted and reproduced below. Executive summary: “Duluth is known for its extensive open spaces, particularly their natural ambiance and relation to Lake Superior. The type, nature, and quantity of open spaces contribute significantly to the character and quality of a community, a concept captured locally in the community-wide "2001 & Beyond" visioning process (completed in 1997) where participants indicated that maintaining Duluth as an "urban wilderness" was a priority. The data in this report are the result of an 8-page, 20-question survey that reached 955 Duluth residents in 2001. The University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program designed the survey with assistance and review from the EAC, the NRI Committee, and the Minnesota Center for Survey Research. Two types of open space were defined in this study: Natural Open Space - places where the native vegetation grows without significant alteration and, Developed Open Space - places where land and vegetation are altered or controlled. Of the questions relating to water resources, 93% of those taking the survey reported that they frequently use and enjoy views of Lake Superior and the St. Louis River. 50% reported using and enjoying wetland areas. Regarding developed open spaces, 68% reported using a public access for boating and fishing. 70% of respondents felt that water supply, sanitary and storm sewers were important government functions related to open spaces.”Item Louisville Township Community Parks, Trails and Open Spaces Planning Map and Parks Plan and Development Report(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2009) Lovell, ErinItem Making the Minnehaha: The Reengineering of a Creek and the Creation of an Envirotechincal System(2019-05) Froiland, SamuelThis history documents the transformation of the Minnehaha Creek from the signing of the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota in the 1850s, which enabled the settlement of the Minnehaha Creek by American settler-colonists and the statehood of Minnesota, to the visit of President Lyndon Baines Johnson to the Minnehaha Falls in 1964. Located along the southern edge of Minneapolis, Minnesota and its south and western suburbs, the Minnehaha Creek is a twenty-two-mile-long waterway connecting Lake Minnetonka and the Mississippi River. Central in this history is confronting uncritical appraisals of the Minnehaha Creek’s naturalness and uncovering the role technology and culture has played in the transformation of the waterway. Because the Minnehaha’s waterfall has been a tourist attraction for more than one-hundred and seventy years, it has been regarded as being one of Minneapolis’s great “natural” treasures. However, this history of the Minnehaha Creek complicates uncritical appraisals of the Minnehaha Creek’s naturalness, or its “natural mythology,” by showing that the Minnehaha, first through the installation of gristmills, then through the construction of a dam at its headwaters, and last through the creation of parklands, has been transformed into an envirotechnical system. That is, a system where nature, culture, and the artifacts of humanity have melded together to form a system that can no longer be explained by one of these forces alone. By uncovering the technology and ideology embedded in the Minnehaha, and how the Minnehaha itself has been turned into a technology, this history presents itself as a case study about how technology is used to express values and priorities on environments and the mythologies we develop to legitimate and rationalize the new environments we create.Item Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Sustainability Framework(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2011) Blitzer, Mary; Esmaeili, Raya; Guetter, Paula; Malecha, Matt; McDonnell, Craig; Weiswerda, LindenItem Neighborhood Revitalization: Phalen Greenway(1999) Goetz, Edward; Humphrey Institute Class on Strategies for Neighborhood RevitalizationItem Park Dedication(Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 2010) Bonsteel, HayleyItem West Broadway Gateway Project(2007) Wilson, Craig