Fact Sheets and Posters
The following fact sheets and posters are resources that we believe are relevant, easy-to-read, influential, and grounded in a thoughtful methodology and/or evaluative process.
Food
- Twin Cities, Minnesota Metropolitan Area Food Map
A map prepared by the University of Minnesota-based Metropolitan Design Center in 2005, for Renewing the Countryside, a non-profit organization working with rural communities.
Parks and Recreation
- Active Living Research Briefing Fact Sheet Overview
In this fast moving research area, these documents provide an overview of older research and public health recommendations on active living and activity-friendly environments.
Physical Activity
- Active Living Research Briefing Fact Sheet Overview
In this fast moving research area, these documents provide an overview of older research and public health recommendations on active living and activity-friendly environments.
Public Participation
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Participation and Planning for Health: How can the public participate in planning for health? Which Design for Health tools can be used in participation processes or modified for such use? This fact sheet deals with these two issues in turn.
Transportation
- Active Living Research Briefing Fact Sheet Overview
In this fast moving research area, these documents provide an overview of older research and public health recommendations on active living and activity-friendly environments.
Urban Design and Land Use
- Housing Density Fact Sheets
These are individual, two-page documents that present local examples of housing and neighborhoods in and near Minneapolis and St. Paul. The housing examples range in density from seven dwelling units per acre, to 110 dwelling units per acre (du/ac). Each is presented with ground and aerial photographs, as well as a location map. Descriptions of the housing and site characteristics and census data--at the census tract and block levels--provide detailed information about each example.Minneapolis and St. Paul
- Density Fact Sheets : includes entire series (14.2 MB)
- Humboldt Greenway : 7 Units/Acre (692 KB)
- Portland Place : 8 Units/Acre (658 KB)
- Hennepin Avenue & 32nd Street : 11 Units/Acre (803 KB)
- Crocus Hill : 18 Units/Acre (1.19 MB)
- Lyndale Avenue & 25th Street : 19 Units/Acre (740 KB)
- Riverplace / St. Anthony : 20 Units/Acre (1 MB)
- Mill District : 24 Units/Acre (753 KB)
- Shingle Creek Commons : 27 Units/Acre (1.4 MB)
- Riverside / West Bank : 28 Units/Acre (632 KB)
- Linden Hills : 32 Units/Acre (914 KB)
- Cathedral Hill : 34 Units/Acre (1.5 MB)
- Stonehouse Square : 40 Units/Acre (1.09 MB)
- East Village : 62 Units/Acre (936 KB)
- Laurel Village : 89 Units/Acre (672 KB)
- Uptown : 110 Units/Acre (707 KB)
Small Towns
- Density Fact Sheets : includes entire series (23.29 MB)
- Chaska : 9 Units/Acre (3.87 MB)
- Cannon Falls : 9 Units/Acre (3.83 MB)
- Stillwater : 12 Units/Acre (4.44 MB)
- Red Wing : 13 Units/Acre (2.36 MB)
- Hastings : 15 Units/Acre (4.09MB)
- Hastings : 18 Units/Acre (4.24 MB)
- Stillwater : 22 Units/Acre (4.12 MB)
Suburbs
- Density Fact Sheets : includes entire series (29.62MB)
- Woodbury : 8 Units/Acre (2.39 MB)
- New Brighton : 8 Units/Acre (2.25 MB)
- Robbinsdale : 9 Units/Acre (2.08 MB)
- Eden Prairie : 9 Units/Acre (2.56 MB)
- Robbinsdale : 9 Units/Acre (2.54 MB)
- Woodbury : 10 Units/Acre (2.26 MB)
- North St. Paul : 10 Units/Acre (2.01 MB)
- Woodbury : 11 Units/Acre (1.89 MB)
- Eden Prairie : 18 Units/Acre (4.74 MB)
- Woodbury : 21 Units/Acre (2.32 MB)
- Woodbury : 32 Units/Acre (2.25 MB)
- Minnetonka : 50 Units/Acre (2.72 MB)
Download Facts Sheets for Outside of the Twin Cities Area
- Housing Density in the Twin Cities Scale Poster (2.3 MB)
- Housing Density in the Suburbs and Small Towns Scale Poster (20.1 MB)
These are photographs of individual buildings and developments of varying densities.
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