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Item Conflict and Change Center, University of Minnesota: 1991 Annual Report.(Conflict and Change Center, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1992) Conflict and Change CenterItem Redevelopment Sensitivity For The Changing Urban Fabric(Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-03-06) Rife, JacobThe future Central Corridor light rail transit (LRT) line provides an opportunity to transform the Twin Cities urban fabric. The Corridor, connecting the two downtowns, includes many destinations such as the University of Minnesota and the State Capitol. New development along the Corridor has the opportunity to utilize transit-oriented design and reduce dependence on the private automobile. This type of development is nothing new to the Twin Cities as it is currently occurring along the Hiawatha LRT line. New physical and economic growth has started to transform this industrial landscape into a mixed use, pedestrian environment. The study area, University Avenue (Lexington Parkway to Rice Street), presents a prime opportunity for transit-oriented development (TOD) to occur (Image: lower right). However, the Central Corridor is not running down a street with a blank slate. Since the early 1900s the area along University Avenue between Lexington Avenue and Rice Street has exhibited a unique community identity. This unique area has been home for several ethnic communities which have seen this area grow and evolve. The purpose of this report is to present a way in which development can occur along University Avenue, between Lexington Parkway and Rice Street which is compatible with the community and supportive of future LRT. The paper will first consider the larger context of the Central Corridor LRT, the physical conditions of the community, and the demographics within the area. Then, there will be an illustration showing the development potential within the project limits. Finally, a site plan will convey a plan for future development within the area.Item Regional legacies of logging: Departure from presettlement forest conditions in northern Minnesota(2005) Friedman, Steven K; Reich, Peter BForests in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States have been important timber producing resources for more than 100 years. Logging and fire suppression have caused major, but unquantified change in those forests, which includes both the magnitude of compositional change and its spatial patterns. Hence, a spatially explicit regional-scale change analysis was conducted using General Land Office Survey records from the late 1800s and the 1990 U.S. Forest Service Inventory and Analysis Survey, for a 3.2 million hectare study area in northeastern Minnesota, USA. These data document altered species abundance, proportional basal area, and spatial distribution patterns. Regionally, the proportionally most abundant species shifted from the presettlement period (spruce, 21%; larch, 15%; and paper birch, 15%) to aspen (30%), spruce (16%), and balsam fir (16%) in 1990. In terms of proportional basal area dominance, white pine declined from 20% to 5%, birch from 16% to 13%, spruce from 14% to 9%, and larch from 12% to 2%, while aspen increased from 8% to 35%. Based on ordination of species abundance and proportional basal area, physiographic zones varying in geology and hydrology were characterized by different species composition in the 19th century and experienced largely parallel rather than convergent shifts in community composition since that time. Maps were developed for the regional study area using a 10 × 10 km spatial resolution to document spatial patterns of species proportional basal area. White pine co-dominated (was ranked first or second in proportion of basal area) 45% of the 253 100-km2 presettlement zones, but none of the 1990 zones. Forest zones co-dominated by red pine, jack pine, and larch also largely disappeared. These forests were largely supplanted by aspen co-dominated communities, which accounted for 82% of the 1990 forest zones and represent diminished regional landscape diversity. Although the same 11 species made up the 1990 as well as the 19th century forest, change in their relative abundance and dominance was profound such that 85% of the 253 zones now contain community types (i.e., dominant species pairs) that did not dominate anywhere in the presettlement era.Item Research and Development in Industrial Corporations: Can Advanceed Societies Learn to Contain Pollution?(Water Resources Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1973-08) Rickson, Roy E.The development and distribution of knowledge has long been of interest to policymakers and social scientists. Because of the power of industrial corporations and the influence they have over the general research and development process, societies have the knowledge to deal with problems that coincide with corporate goals but have difficulty handling problems where solutions are, in the short run, contradictory to the uninterrupted pursuit of economic goals. A good example is societal ability to deal with waste or pollution. Two processes are important: (1) the process by which resources are allocated to research at the corporate and societal level and (2) the management of the expert role by the organizations.Item Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest: Changes from 1960 to 1989.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1990) Anding, Thomas L.; Adams, John S.; Casey, William; de Montille, Sandra; Goldfein, MiriamItem Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest: Three Case Studies Examining Changes from 1960 to 1989.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1991) Lukermann, Barbara L.; Goldfein, Miriam; de Montille, Sandra