Urban renewal -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Barbara Flanagan Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0015
Description of Contents
The Barbara Flanagan Papers contain a wide array of materials on the professional and personal life of Star Tribune columnist, author, and socialite Barbara Flanagan. The collection holds personal papers, documents, records, scrapbooks, notes, drafts, interview transcripts, extensive personal correspondence and reader letters, photocopies of Flanagan’s columns, research materials, club and organization materials, press releases and event invitations, awards and plaques, honors, magazine and...
Dates:
1886 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1993
Collection on Heritage Park
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0417
Description of Contents
Brochures, flyers, meeting materials, reports, publications, and photographs documenting the planning and construction of Heritage Park in Near North Minneapolis. Materials include incomplete meeting minutes and agendas from the Near Northside Implementation Committee.
Dates:
1995 - 2005
Collection on the Minneapolis Model City Program
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0226
Description of Contents
The collection consists of 14 boxes and 9 binders of material from the Minneapolis Model City Program. It contains studies, surveys, reports, and organizational materials that document the condition of south-central Minneapolis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the future that planners envisioned for it.Boxes 1-2 and 8 contain drafts and final reports from the program's many committees, meeting minutes of the Policy and Planning Committee, and organizational...
Dates:
1966 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1971
Lawrence Irvin Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0019
Description of Contents
This collection documents the career of Minneapolis city planner Lawrence Irvin. While the whole of the collection dates from 1957-1984, the bulk of the material reflects the later years of Irvin’s career, dating from the mid-1970s through 1981. Although much of the material was created by Irvin when he served as Planning Director Emeritus, the subject contents heavily reflect work done early in his career. Collection materials include newspaper clippings; major project presentations,...
Dates:
1957 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1981
Minneapolis City Planning Department Records
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0314
Description of Contents
The collection contains memos, staff notes, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, news releases, grant and financial documents, data gathered for studies, and formal staff papers and studies from the City of Minneapolis' Planning Department from the 1920s through the early 1970s. The bulk of the records date from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, especially during Lawrence Irvin's time in the department.The bulk of the collection consists of material related to studies...
Dates:
1959 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1970
Weiming Lu Papers
Collection
Identifier: M/A 0407
Description of Contents
Writings, planning documents, and 35mm slides from Weiming Lu's work in the Minneapolisl City Planning Department during the 1960s and 1970s. The bulk of the collection is draft articles reflecting on the Metro Center '85 project.
Dates:
1967 - 2010
Hennepin County Library Special Collections
Hundreds of archival collections documenting Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and World War II history can be viewed in Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library. Some materials are available online in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Minneapolis Central Library
300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55401
specialcoll@hclib.org
(612) 543-8200
