Mineapolis is a city of the the United States, seat of the county of Hennepin in the State of the Minnesota.

Located in south-east of the State and at the edge of the the Mississippi, located at approximately 650 km in the North-West of Chicago, it is close to its capital, Saint Paul, another city important with which it forms the principal agglomeration of the State of the Minnesota. In 2005, Mineapolis counted 372  811 inhabitants for the city in itself and 3  467  108 inhabitants for the agglomeration of Mineapolis - Saint Paul (which includes/understands other smaller communes), which classified the urban Aire like the 16th greater agglomeration of the United States and the vaster 105e on a worldwide scale. These two cities at the edge of the Mississippi are known under the name of “twin cities” ( Twin Cities ).

Etymology

The name of Mineapolis comes from the name Sioux mine , which mean water, and from the Greek word polished , which means city. This name like its nickname, “city of the lakes”, refer to the many lakes which occupy and surround the city.

In addition, one calls the inhabitants of Mineapolis the Minneapolitans in English, translated “Minneapolitains” into French.

Heraldic

Like all American City , Mineapolis has its clean Drapeau and its Armoiries.

See also: Amorce=Pour of the precise details on their contents and their significance, to see the articles, Flag of Mineapolis, Seal of Mineapolis

History

Before Mineapolis

Before second half of the 19th century, the history of Mineapolis is closely related to that of the Sioux, tribe of Amerindian which occupied in the beginning its territory well before the arrival of the first Européens in the Années 1680, of which the father Louis Hennepin who, elected by the France, was the first to explore the area.

Since this time, the area of Mineapolis belonged successively to several European countries before integrating the American territory later. The seizure of France on this territory began as of 1680 after the forwarding of Louis Hennepin. Following the treated of Paris rising from the Seven Year old War in 1763, the zone of the current Minnesota to the western of the Mississippi and the south of the Hudson Bay was yielded to the Spain. Belonging to the News-France, the western territory of Mineapolis briefly returned under French control in 1803 before being integrated definitively in the the United States following the Vente of Louisiana. The part of the city located at the east of the Mississippi was transferred to the England also at the conclusion of the treaty of Paris of 1763. This portion of ground, which shelters part of Minnesota, but also of Mineapolis, was given to the United States after the independence of the country.

In the objective to sit its authority in the west of the United States of the time, the American armed builds the Fort Snelling on a territory bought with the Sioux in 1805. This ground which the fort occupied as of its construction in 1819 corresponds today to the totality of Mineapolis and half of Saint Paul.

The extremely allowed the monitoring of the Confluent of the Mississippi and Minnesota. The safety zone under its control was interdict with any civil establishment. It is only in 1850 that the very first not-soldier was authorized to settle there, it acted of John H. Stevens which had obtained this right in exchange of its offer of a service of vat through the rivers to extremely connect the to the commune close to Saint Anthony. Symbolically, it can be regarded as the first resident of the occupied territory today by Mineapolis. A little later in 1852, the president Millard Fillmore approved an act of the Congrès granting a reduction of surface under protection of Strong Snelling, then opening the part in the west of the river to the civil establishments. The same year, was created the Comté of Hennepin named in the honor of the father Louis Hennepin who discovered it.

Birth of the city

Although there is then still no commune in the west of the Chutes of Saint Anthony, the first commission of the Comté of Hennepin chooses this site like sits of the county of Hennepin. Several names were proposed for the new place, the selected first was “Albion”. However vis-a-vis certain reserves, other names were put thereafter in competition. It is finally “Mineapolis” which will be retained after a professor of school proposed “Minnehapolis” with the St Anthony Express , local Journal which published the idea the November 5th 1852 which was adopted one week later.

Mineapolis was regarded as a Ville as of 1856 by the territorial legislation of the Minnesota ( Minnesota Territorial Legislature ). In 1867, Dorilus Morrison was elected as a first Maire of the city. A long time put outstanding, the fusion of St Anthony with Mineapolis was carried out only in 1872 after the Agglomération quickly developed following the American Civil War.

The River running in direction of south-east, the original construction of the Ville was parallel to made the River in order to maximize the quantity of ground which could be employed. The later growth of Mineapolis was made with the realization of street S mainly in the Northern directions - Southern/Is - western, thus involving the birth of many intersections (most famous is probably that of the “seven corners” ( seven corners in English), on the periphery is Center-ville).

After being itself developed in first around industry of the Wood, the economy of the Ville was directed towards the cereal transformation thanks to the activity of the surrounding area of the Grandes Plains. With the birth of the first multinationals of the sector in its General center like Millets or Pillsbury, Mineapolis was often called the “capital of the flour mills” in particular because until in 1932, it belonged to the area in the world with the strongest production of Grain S.

Murderapolis

The Years 1920 and 1930 constituted one relatively black period for the reputation of Mineapolis with the development of the Organized crime and the Corruption illustrated by the the most famous godfather then at that time, “Kid edge” (of its true name Isadore Blumenfeld).

To cure these problems, a vast plan of Urban renewal was launched with the destruction of approximately 200 buildings (either close to 40  % of the City) as well unhealthy as sometimes to the required Architecture. One the most regretted of of them was the Metropolitan Building , more known under the name of “ the Met ” which had obtained many supports (with final without success) as for its conservation. This event contributed all the same to a relative awakening of the inhabitants and leaders concerning the safeguarding of the inheritance of their city.

Although it was never official, the Racial segregation was frequent between blacks and white. Today, certain problems still persist although a programme of desegregation in education was engaged as of 1972. While ethnic diversity grows in the area, certain communities like the Amerindian or the Afro-américain S complain to be often the targets of the police force. Moreover, Mineapolis holds the strongest incidence of poverty at the blacks that any other city of the United States.

The second turbid period for the city lasted during the Années 1990 when the rate of criminality with the rising influence of the Gang S increased considerably, in particular in the poor districts. Among them, the district of Philips was particularly touched by this plague. After having reached a record number of 97 Homicide S in 1995, Mineapolis gained the nickname of “ Murderapolis ” ( murder meaning Crime in English). In the beginning, this pseudonym was that of a store of Arme S local. It was popularized by the NewYork Times which used it when the city exceeded the rate of criminality per capita of that of New York. Although the Insécurité dropped in the years which followed, the term is still sometimes used during the periods of renewal of Violence.

Mineapolis today

Nowadays, the drug company and the financial institutions partially replaced the activities agricultural S and Industrie it. One also finds there the largest shopping mall of the the United States ( the Mall off America ) which makes it possible the town of increase its economic and commercial radiation. Many measures Environnement ales were taken, as in 2005, when prohibition to smoke in the public places was adopted.

Mineapolis turned also much to the Culture while becoming an important pole for the Art S. the Walker Art Center (open in 1927) was one of the initiators of the movement Pop art whereas the Guthrie Theater (created in 1963) accommodated many artists rewarded by the Emmy Award S or the Oscars for the cinema. New the Guthrie Theater, equipped with a Architecture avant-gardist, opened his doors in 2006 in the middle of old the Moulin S reconverted. In the Years 1980, a new wave of Musician S represented by artists like Prince, the Hüsker Of the, The Replacements or Soul Asylum also contributed to build the artistic reputation of the city, and gave rise to a musical current suitable for it, the Mineapolis sound .

Geography

Mineapolis is located at the north of the Midwest the United States, area of the center of the North America. The foreign Pays nearest is the Canada of which it is distant approximately 400 km. More precisely, the Ville is localized with center-is State Minnesota, in the county of Hennepin not far from the border with the Wisconsin.

Mineapolis was built with the Confluent Rivière of the Minnesota and the Mississippi on a relatively flat ground. Not less than 16 lakes are located inside the limits of the city, the majority of them nevertheless reduced and not very deep, but being covered by the Glace in Hiver. According to the Office of the census of the United States, the town of Mineapolis has a total surface of 151,3 km ² (58,4 semi ²). 142,2 km ² (54,9 semi ²) of its surface are located on the surface while 9,1 km ² (3,5 semi ²) (6,01%) are made up the Eau. Its Altitude varies between 209 and 323 meters with the top of the level of the Mer.

The downtown area is located just at the south of the Latitude of the 45e Northern degree. Southern part of the Golden delicious Valley Road in the east of the Wirth Parkway , a limits is laid out besides indicating the passage of the 45e parallel north.

Climate

The Climat of Mineapolis is a continental Climat typical of that which one meets in the areas of the Middle West of the the United States. Because of its position Septentrional E, the Hiver S are particularly cold there with a current Arctique moving towards the Southern coming from the Canada. Like all continental Climate, time can be sometimes relatively unforeseeable with the advanced arrival of the good weather as of April - May then usually specific to the months of June to August.

Among all large the Metropolis S of the United States, Mineapolis Saint Paul is coldest with only 7,48  C° (45,46 F°) of average of Température S. the four Saison S are very marked with changes of temperature important and relatively briefs in particular because of various climatic currents suitable for each one of them being able to traverse the city. If the Hiver S are generally cold and dry, the be S are often soft, sometimes hot and frequently wet. The city undergoes a broad panel of ic demonstrations Climat energy of the Neige, Verglas and Givre with the Pluie, the Orage S and the Brouillard.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Mineapolis was of 42  C° (108  F°) the July 14th 1936, whereas coldest was noted the January 21st 1888 with -40,55  C° (- 41  F°). The most snow-covered winter was that of 1983 - 84 when on the whole 2 meters 50 of snow fell on the city.

Winter

The winter in Mineapolis is characterized by the cold (the temperatures are generally negative) and of the snowfalls. Whereas high the Atmospheric pressure come from the plains of the Canada brings a light Vent, a Ciel released and a dry cold, the current coming from the Canadian province of the alternate Alberta with these high pressures and brings temperatures slightly softer but accompanied by frequent precipitations of snow. Occasionally, of the Tempête S come from the Pacific Ocean can involve the arrival of blizzard, submerging the town of snow then.

Spring

With the Printemps, it is not rare that the cold persists with snowfalls until end April or beginning May. However, it is especially the Saison Orage S, consequence of the arrival of currents come from the Pacific mingled with an hot air] and wet originating in the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its position with respect to the various climatic currents, Mineapolis is particularly exposed to these Orage S which are transformed sometimes into dangerous Derecho S, but presents also a strong risk of Tornade S, in particular in June.

Summer

The be sees the arrival of a hotter, wet, but punctuated atmosphere by Température S more stable than in the other seasons, although cold currents can briefly reappear from where the storms and Tornade S which is always possible in July and August.

Fall

The Automne is one season completely opposed to the climate which one finds in spring] in Mineapolis. The temperatures become more variable and arrive various climatic currents and storms each time colder, with the image of the rain which generally makes place with snow towards October.

Averages and given

Political life

Mineapolis is a known Ville for its “liberal” political tendencies and as being a fortified town for the democratic party. John Kerry had gained besides the city by a vast majority with the presidential elections in 2004.

The capacity Politique of the city is divided between several entities which share the various fields of action. Most important is the Municipal council ( Mineapolis City Council ) which holds the strongest decision-making power. The Maire can make certain individual decisions, as when it names the chief of the police force for example, but it must coordinate itself with his municipal council in the majority of the other cases, translating his weak personal decision-making power.

The other groups of being able semi-indépendants but are limited to quite precise fields. Thus, the Mineapolis Park and Recreation Board governs all that relates to the Parc S and green areas, the Mineapolis Public Library' S Board off Trustees of the Bibliothèque S and the Neighborhood Revitalization Program of the urban Réhabilitation.

Mayor

The current mayor of Mineapolis east R.T. Rybak, member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor which, elected in 2001 and 2005, should continue its second mandate until January 2010. Many a political personalities was in the past mayors of the city. Among them, democratic Hubert Humphrey which, become mayor in 1945, was vice-president of the United States of 1965 with 1968, year during which it presented without success to the presidency country against Richard Nixon.

Sharon Sayles Belton was the first woman and Afro-américain E with being elected at the post of mayor of Mineapolis of 1994 to 2001 whereas Arthur Naftalin was the first man of Jewish religion to occupy this same function of 1961 to 1969.

Municipal council

The Mineapolis City Council (municipal council of Mineapolis) is composed of 13 called members wards . Currently, it is dominated by the Democratic-Farmer-Labor which holds 12 seats as its presidency whereas the green left holds the last place.

Structure and urban landscape

Town planning and architecture

Mineapolis shows the typical urban characteristics of the North-American Ville S with in its center a Central business district equipped with Gratte-ciel S and surrounded by broad a Agglomération. The Ville however holds its principal characteristic in its statute of “twin city” with Saint Paul, the urban Aire consisted Mineapolis merging with that of its neighbor.

The three higher building S of Mineapolis are:

1. IDS Center (1973) - 241m
2. the 225 South Sixth (1992) - 237m
3. the Wells Fargo Center (1988) - 236m

The majority of the skyscrapers of the CBD are connected between them on the first floor by glazed passages which shelter the pedestrians of the rigors of the winter.

Urban cutting

The Ville is divided into 11 communities comparable to District S, themselves made up of several district S.

The 11 communities (District S):

The 76 neighborhoods (district S):

Demography

See also: Statistical detailed of the demography of Mineapolis

The Minnesota was historically always a land of welcome for the populations Scandinavian S and Germanic S. the first always sought to be established preferably in the Forêt S of the north of the State while the seconds more often settled in the Plaine S of the south. Mineapolis being located between the two areas consequently has a broad part of its population going down from these Ethnie S.

During the large wave of immigration of Eastern Europe of the Years 1870 at the beginning of the 20th century, many groups coming from Poland, the Baltic States or Russia was established in the district of the Northeast . Until recently, the Nordeast district was strongly associated with these populations. Mineapolis also has a community Amerindian very developed, among vastest of the the United States. After the War of Vietnam, the Ville became a destination for the populations hmong and all the refugees Vietnam iens. More recently, a new flow of refugees Somalia NS modified the demography of Mineapolis. More minor communities of Laotian, Kampuchean S, Ethiopia NS or of Mexicain S can also be met within the city where the largest population of refugees Tibetan S of the United States is in addition found.

The number of residents in Mineapolis (except Agglomeration) decreased significantly after its peak of 521  718 inhabitants in 1950, even if one notes an increase of the population since the Années 1990. This recent inversion of situation is due to an increase in the not-white population of the residents, the number of white having continued to decrease for today reaching its low level since the beginning of the 20th century. In a general way, the urban surface of Mineapolis Saint Paul knew a strong growth of its population, which doubled since the Années 1950 for being established today to approximately three million people.

The downtown area was a long time declining until policies of repopulation are founded. The population within this last increased these last years thanks to construction new real HLM and with old conversion Industrie S into Loft S. According to the Recensement of the USA of 2000, the downtown area counted approximately 20  201 inhabitants whereas five years later; another study brought back this figure to 29  350. The number of residents of the downtown area of Mineapolis caught up with the level which it had before the Années 1960 and 70. By entering the number of residences in construction or project, these statistics could reach the symbolic mark of the 40  000 citizens in 2010. In the day in week, one estimates that the population occupying the downtown area reached 165  000 people grace partly to the flow of workers coming from the Suburbs.

Always according to the census of 2000, there was with Mineapolis, 382  618 inhabitants, 162  352 households and 73  870 families residing inside the limits of the City (thus except Agglomeration). The population density was of 2  691,4 habitants/km ² and there was 168  606 residences for an average density of 1  186 logements/km ².

In 2000, there was in Mineapolis 162  352 households of which 22,6  % with child (S) whose age is lower than 18 years. 29  % relate to couples married S living together, 12,3  % a woman without husband present and 54,5  % without pertaining family. 40,3  % of these households lived individually and 8  % consisted of at least a person of more than 65 years. The intermediate size of a household is of 2,25 individuals whereas that of a family is approximately 3,15 people.

The population of Mineapolis is distributed in the following way according to the ages:

• - 18 years (22%)
• 18-24 years (14,4%)
• 25-44 years (36,6%)
• 45-64 (17,9%)
• + 65 years (9,1%)

The median age is 31 years and one roughly counts 100,1 men for 100 women.

The median income was of 37  974$ for a household and of 48  602$ for a family in 2000. For a man, it was of 35  216$ and 30.663$ for a woman. The Income per head for the Ville was of 22  685$. Approximately 11,9  % of the families and 16,9  % of the total population lived under the Poverty line, including 24,5  % of them having less than 18 years and 10,9  % having more than 65 years.

Economy

If the economy and the rise of Mineapolis were initially made around the Primary sector, today the city diversified in fields as varied as the medical products , electronic S, Agroalimentaire S or graphic arts. 16 of the 500 the larger Entreprise S American S (and 30 among richest of the world) established to them Head office in the Agglomération, which makes of it the economic pole more developed between the west coast of the United States and Chicago.

Mineapolis has one of the greatest regroupings High-tech of the country thanks to the formations suggested by the Université of Minnesota and several technological schools from which come from many researchers who are then employed by the companies of high technology which are with the number of 1  300 in the agglomeration.

Among the Bank S and other financial institutions making of Mineapolis Saint Paul, the financial pole the top Midwest, seven of richest are established in Mineapolis. The local banks, the organizations of saving and loan and the insurance companies also hold an major importance in economic fabric of the city.

Many companies have their seat in Mineapolis or in its agglomeration, among which:

• General Millets, a conglomerate of the food general public.
• Cargill, world leader cereal commercial.
• Honeywell, founded in 1885 in Mineapolis, larger Shopping mall of the United States and more attended world which although located apart from the city holds a dominating share in the commercial radiation of Mineapolis. Each year, it attracts nearly 40 million visitors in its 520 trade and employs approximately 12.000 people.

Mineapolis has its own center of convention, the Mineapolis Convention Center open in 1990 and renovated in 2002. It is connected to nearly 3.000 hotel rooms external to the building accessible without leaving outside, via the network skyways of the city.

In February 2005, the Unemployment rate amounted to 4,2% of the Active population (5,2% on average national).

Social life

Education

Primary and secondary education

The first school on the territory of Mineapolis was created in 1834 before even the existence of the city, it accommodated the children of the Militaire S of the Fort Snelling. The administration which governs today the various public schools of Mineapolis is the Mineapolis Public Schools which manages nearly 99 schools within the city and 43  329 pupils. One counts nearly 19 pupils per professor and a budget by pupil of 10  226$ in 2003. Many subsidies are versed at the schools by foundations so that they integrate the Art or of the supplements in Science S in the courses which they propose to the pupils. Here how are distributed the various public schools:

• Primary schools S: 45

• College S: 7
• College S: 7
• Others: 8 specialized schools; 27 schools of alternative teaching

The Comté of Hennepin is also equipped with 45 schools private S.

Higher education

The higher education of Mineapolis is dominated by the Université of Minnesota which is located in its center and opened as of 1857 with 26 pupils. Commune with Saint Paul, it accommodates today close to 45  000 pupils and fact part of the 20 larger universities of the United States. Five degrees of teaching are exempted in nearly 250 fields like architecture, medicine, journalism or the economy. Among its former students, the university of Minnesota counts 12 Nobel Prize on the whole (physical, medicine, chemistry, economy and peace).

Other establishments external to the university exist as the Mineapolis College off Art and Design which proposes a four years course in art and certain technological schools. One also counts second university, it such a public but less important, the Metropolitan State University .

Libraries

The Mineapolis Public Library manages the central bookstore of Mineapolis as its 14 antennas. In 2000, a Référendum made it possible to allocate 140 million Dollar S at the organization in order to build a new central library and to improve the others. Currently, one counts on the whole nearly six million work S in the various libraries of Mineapolis.

Health

In 2005, the Comté of Hennepin had 26 hospital and 16 private clinics. The principal ones of them are the University off Minnesota Children' S Hospital , the Shriner' S Hospital , the Veteran' S Administration Medical Center , the Hennepin County Medical Center and the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute .

Mineapolis sees an important part of sound economy stimulated by the drug companies and the medical research. It is besides in the medical center of the Université of Minnesota that in 1954 was carried out the cardiac first Chirurgie with open Cœur.

Safety

The Mineapolis Police Department counted in 2003 1  139 employees including 861 officers of police force sworn in.

According to the data revealed by FBI, Mineapolis saw its rate criminality to increase 15  % in 2005 whereas the rise at the national level is evaluated with 2,5  %. Although the time of “ Murderapolis ” is completed, these statistics make of it the 23e most dangerous Ville of the the United States. In 2002, the police force counted 69  563 crimes or offenses.

Environment

The current mayor of the city, R.T. Rybak directed part of its policy towards the questions Environnement ales since its election in 2001.

Mineapolis became one of the first cities of the the United States to reduce its emissions of Gaz to greenhouse effect in lower part of the thresholds prescribed by the Protocole of Kyoto. Although the automobile Pollution is in increase, the polluting emissions of other sources were reduced of 15  % these ten last years. New constructions and infrastructures of the city (as the Standard lamp S) were made more efficient and the Recyclage of the Déchet S.A. be thorough. The barracks of Pompier S of the downtown area just like has a solar roof financed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a station of police force, from now on supplied with solar panels. Gradually, the traffic lights are equipped with lights LED and the city increased its use of Papier recycled of 95  % in four years, representing approximately 30  today; % of the whole of paper used. Apart from the agglomeration, three powerplants which functioned formerly with the coal were converted into central with natural gas. Today, Mineapolis counts eight buildings equipped with the Energy Star, label provided by the EPA to the buildings respecting certain environmental standards. In addition, the use of the bicycle as means of transport was largely encouraged by the construction of a dense network of cycle tracks and for the future, the town hall tests a new drunk system of functioning with the hybrid energy.

Culture

Arts

• Theaters

After New York and Chicago, Mineapolis is the American city having the rate of frequentation of its Théâtre S and its artistic events highest per capita. The Agglomération is brought back as being the third theatrical market of the the United States. The Guthrie Theater is the most famous theater of the city. Mineapolis has two theaters in addition having gained one day the Tony Award (annual reward for the theater in the United States): the Children' S Theater Company and the Theater of the Young Moon . In its plan of rehabilitation of the downtown area and some district S of Warehouse S declining starting from second half of the 20th century, the municipality repurchased and renovated several theaters on the Hennepin avenue to create the Hennepin Theater District , district where one finds today, with the manner of Broadway in New York, of many rooms of theater.

• Museums

The largest museum of the city is the Mineapolis Institute off Arts ( Institut of arts ). The Modern art is exposed to the Walker Art Center which has in particular a garden external of Sculpture S with inter alia famous “the Spoonbridge and Cherry ” which became one of the symbols of the city.

• Others

The North Loop (old industrial district called “ Warehouse District ”) which was quickly integrated into the downtown area was the reference mark many studios and galleries of artists in the Années 1980. However, the rise of the rents obliged the majority of them to move.

A big number of Festival S are organized annually in the city. The majority of them are of minor scale but the others can attract visitors of State S neighbors.

Mineapolis has several fireworks S, the Aquatennial is famous as being the fourth larger spectacle pyrotechnical of the United States, although it is not held the July 4th (national festival) but several days later.

The teaching of arts also is very developed in Mineapolis, the image of the Perpich Center for Arts Education , of the Mineapolis College off Art and Design , or of the Art Institutes International .

• Music

Musicalement, the birth of the “ Mineapolis Sound ” within the city played an important role in the development of the pop music. Prince is most famous of the singers resulting from Mineapolis, some of its songs making even some time reference to the city. The producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis also contributed to the rise of the “ Mineapolis Sound ” at the sides of Prince.

In addition, the alternative Rock also played a great part with the birth of groups such as the Hüsker Of the or The Replacements in the years 1980 and of the Semisonic in the Années 1990. Today, of new musical styles emergent rather in the city like the Hip-hop. The Symphony orchestra of Minnesota one of is more recognized of the United States.

Media

Printed

The main thing Journal general practitioner of Mineapolis is the Star Platform in treating complement many other periodicals of specific subjects. There exists also the Mpls. St.Paul , a Magazine having for subject the events and the life in the Agglomeration of Mineapolis Saint Paul whereas the Université of Minnesota publishes its own daily newspaper on its campus, the Minnesota Daily . Other publications (with national distribution as for them) are based in Mineapolis following the example The Utne Reader .

Television and radios

The principal local chains of Television of Mineapolis and its surroundings are:

• KTCA Chanel 2 (PBS)

• WCCO Chanel 4 (CBS)
• KSTP Chanel 5 (ABC)
• KMSP Chanel 9 (FOX)
• KARE Chanel 11 (NBC)
• KTCI Chanel 17 (PBS)
• WUCW Chanel 23 (CW)
• WFTC Chanel 29 (MyNetworkTV)
• KPXM Chanel 41 (I)
• KSTC Chanel 45 (Independent)

One also counts nearly 14 radio stations AM and 20 of radio FM of which two more known are WCCO and KQRS .

Technologies

A study of the American scientific magazine Popular Science published in 2005 devoted Mineapolis like the “ Top Tech City ” (“the most technological city”) of the United States. Among many factors which brought to this conclusion, Mineapolis arrived in first place in the field of the technological solutions in transport and fourth on the energy questions.

In Mineapolis, new technologies occupy an important place as much in economic fabric that in the Urbanisme. In the urban landscape first of all, one notes a advanced use of the “intelligent transport systems”. Indeed, with many intersections microsensors under the roadway gathering of information are installed relating to the occupation of the traffic. Thanks to this innovation, the synchronization of the traffic lights is adjusted controlling the motor vehicle traffic then. In the public transport, the schedules of new the Light subway were coordinated with those of the drunk in order to optimize the time of transport of the users. In addition, the Abribus are heated electrically and contrary to other cities like New York, the electronic payment in the Taxi S is accepted: 48  678 places (Baseball) - 64  035 places (foot US)

• the Target Center: 20  500 places (Basketball)
• the Xcel Energy Center: 18  064 (hockey and stick)

The May 3rd 2006, the construction of new a Stade of Baseball for the Minnesota Twins being called the Twins Ballpark was approved by the county. Of a capacity of 42  000 places, it should be inaugurated for 2010. Mainly, this decision made following a reflection of the Major League Baseball reduce the number of clubs by repurchasing the least profitable franknesses, which was the case of Twins mainly because of the absence of a stage economically viable.

Personalities born in Mineapolis

Transport

Highway network

The majority of the inhabitants of Mineapolis move through the area which is with the junction of the Interstate 94 and of the Interstate 35. While arriving in the urban Surface, the I-35 is divided into two, the western part ( I-35W ) passes through the downtown area whereas the other connects ( I-394 ) connects the western suburbs to the downtown area. The Interstate 94 is also duplicated in two parts with l' I-494 and l' I-694 which makes the turn of the agglomeration to the manner of a peripheral .

On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, in full rush hour of the evening, a bridge of the I-35W crumbles in the the Mississippi, precipitating in the floods around fifties of vehicles. The catastrophe makes 5 dead, 80 wounded and 8 missings (estimates with the August 4th). Small miracle: a school bus transporting an about sixty children was on the bridge at the time of the drama, but all its occupants are healthy and safe.

Airport

The agglomeration is served by the International airport of Mineapolis-Saint-Paul who, located at the south of the city, establishes mainly interior connections or worms of other countries of North America. The only intercontinental connections are those with the airports of London Gatwick and Tokyo Narita. The opening of a new line with Paris Charles-of-Gaulle is in project in order to answer the request growth of traffic towards Europe.

The airport of Mineapolis-Saint-Paul has two terminals, the final Lindbergh (divided of has to G) and the final Humphrey smaller. The main thing hub of Northwest Airlines, Sun Country Airlines and of Champion Air, it is the 10 {{E}} larger airport of the United States and the 19 {{E}} more important of the world in terms of traffic of passengers. Northwest Airlines is principal the Airline company of the airport by occupying more 70  % of the whole of the traffic. In addition to the transport of passengers, the airport is also served by 16 airline companies cargo liner transporting annually close to 170  000 tons of Freight.

Having its clean Tram with its two lines connecting the various terminals, the airport is connected to Mineapolis by highway via the Minnesota State Highway 5 and by drunk, Light subway and Taxi.

Public transport

Many inhabitants use for their displacements the public transport or the Taxi S. For the majority of them, this made following a financial choice while others prefer to substitute the car by the bicycle or walk]. The network descends from that before made up by the Tramway S formerly extremely present in the streets of Mineapolis but replaced little by little by the drunk in the Années 1950. At that time, the Twin City Rapid Transit acted as principal manager of public transport within the city but the company was repurchased by Metro Transit in 1970 before disappearing under this name. The transport system of Mineapolis is continuous with that of Saint Paul, the two cities dividing Metro Transit as a single operator.

A new system of Light subway is set up since 2004 and meets one big hit near the population. For the moment, only the Hiawatha Line is in service, connecting the International airport of Mineapolis-Saint-Paul and the Mall off America to the downtown area. It uses the car Flexity Swift of Bombardier Transport. New lines are currently in project with the suburbs and the municipal council studies the possibility of a possible return of the tram as a means of transport in Mineapolis in the future years.

Pedestrian displacement

A system of footbridge S covered and in height (the skyways ) connect between them nearly 60 blocks of buildings, constituting a network of almost 13 km making it possible to the pedestrians to move through the city without having to face the cold.

Circulation pedestrian on the level of the street is thus reduced in winter and of many trade, which normally would have been at the ground floor in another city are on the second floor. These inter-connected passages contain sometimes themselves of the trade or the restaurants, Mineapolis being then to the image of a gigantic shopping mall.

In the beginning, Mineapolis and Saint Paul had one of the first networks shoed to cross the the Mississippi. Today, the rail traffic having declined, of many bridges as the Stone Arch Bridge were transformed for henceforth accommodating the cyclists and the pedestrians.

Cycle ways

These twenty last years saw an important expansion of the network of tracks and cycle ways. Today, the network consists of 55 km of roads equipped with tracks and 90 km only cycle ways. Among them, the principal ones are:

• The Midtown Greenway

• The Kenilworth Trail
• The Cedar Lake Trail
• The West To rivet Parkway (skirting the the Mississippi)

Mineapolis is one of the cities of the United States having the strongest rate of inhabitants using the bicycle (2,63  % of the population). Each day over the year, it is on average close to 10  000 people who move thanks to these means of transport as much for a practical use that for the Loisir S.

International relations

Twinnings

Mineapolis is twinned with eight Ville S through the world:

• (with Saint Paul)

It also maintains the relations brought closer with and.

Diplomacy

The Canada, the Norway and the Ecuador are the last three Pays to maintain a consulate in Mineapolis.

Gallery

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