“Remembering the Bohemian Flats”: An Exhibit and a Practice of Public Memory
By Laurie Moberg “Remembering the Bohemian Flats: One Place, Many Voices,” exhibited at Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, April 30 through November 1, 2015. From…
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A Home Worth Fighting For: The Evictions at the Bohemian Flats
By Rachel Hines When University of Minnesota students walk across the Washington Avenue Bridge between the East Bank and West Bank campuses, they not…
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Layers in the Landscape: A Floodplain Forest and the People Who Have Inhabited It
The Mississippi River in the Twin Cities region is a truly remarkable landscape corridor. It serves as part of an important flyway for North American birds, is the ancestral and traditional homeland of Dakota people, and has been the site of several developments that have global and national significance…
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What It Means to be a “Partnership Park” – The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area touts itself a “partnership park,” but what does that mean, especially in the context of the National Park Service (NPS) overall? When most people think of national parks, they imagine Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, the Everglades, the Statue of Liberty, or some other iconic park or place.
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Minneapolis’ Upper Harbor Terminal: A Geostory of Collaborative Creation
The images here show three configurations of Minneapolis’ Upper Harbor Terminal landscape across a century. Together, these images demonstrate the temporal layering of a physical and social landscape, highlighting changes over time; my analysis aims to illuminate how these changes emerge at the intersection of humans and nonhumans, and point us toward an alternative perception and ethic of co-creating the world.
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