Urban

The main focus of this collaborative project was to truly understand, organize and create a spatial database for the all unincorporated communities in the State of Minnesota. An “unincorporated community” means a geographic area having a common social identity without municipal organization or official political designation.

This document constitutes the areawide TOPICS Plan for the City of Rochester, Minnesota, which has been developed under the Federal program called, "Urban Traffic Operations Program to Increase Capacity and Safety (TOPICS)." The report has been prepared in accordance with the Federal Highway Administration's Policy and Procedure Memorandum 21-18, dated May 13, 1971, which governs the expenditure of Federal Aid highway funds for the TOPICS Program.

The purpose of this program outline is to present the work tasks required to prepare a comprehensive planning program for the urban development within the Metropolitan St. Cloud, Minnesota area.

The final report in a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume Six sums up the previous five volumes and lays out the plan for street improvements in the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks urban area based on the projected traffic in 1990.

The fifth in a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume Five lays out the goals and standards that the data in the previous volumes will be used for.

The fourth in a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume 4 relates to population characteristics in 1965.

The third in a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume 3 presents the results of the 1965 traffic survey.

The second in a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume Two with land use and zoning in 1965.

The first of a series of memorandum reports dealing with the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks Urban Area Transportation Study. Volume One deals with living patterns in 1965, including time spent commuting to work and leisure activities, divided by neighborhood.

The continued decentralization of metropolitan areas has replaced the well-defined daily urban systems of the 1960's with complex, overlapping commuting fields. This report analyzes county-to-county commuting flows in Minnesota and counties in adjacent states to evaluate changes in the state's urban systems between 1960 and 1990. Findings confirm that inter-county commuting has increased dramatically, from 7% in 1960 to nearly 19% in 1990. The rate of growth is diminishing, but the total number of commuters is considerable. In 1990, over 70,000 workers commuted to the seven-county Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA) from Greater Minnesota. Results of a multivariate statistical procedure, factor analysis, confirm that exurban counties between the Twin Cities and nearby regional centers have been drawn into a complex web of interconnected, overlapping urban systems. These findings support the hypothesis that the daily work journey is creating an interdependent network of urban systems in the densely settled portions of the state. The increasing gap between the seven-county TCMA and the practical extent of the Twin Cities underscores the question whether the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Council should expand to include counties connected by the daily flow of workers to the Twin Cities.