Welcome to the Minneapolis site – now slightly less useless than before. The previous versions proudly proclaimed their lack of useful data – who built what where and when, and other inconsequential details. Not this version: Now the sites not only have basic facts, but embedded Google Street View pictures guaranteed to bring your browsing experience to a shuddering crawl! On the other hand, the pictures are bigger, and there's more of them.

The “Downtown” section covers the skyscrapers, recent demolitions, and other landmarks. “Long Gone” describes the ghost city, the one they knocked down to build the current incarnation. “The Lakes” provide postcard & photo tours of three long-beloved city lakes. “The University” - well, guess. But it also contains a tour of Dinkytown, the unfortunately named village that’s housed students and professors for 90 years. “Mpls Modern” concerns postwar commercial architecture, the jet-age Googie stuff - I’m trying to get as much of it on film as I can, because it’s going rapidly.

This site will be updated throughout 2008-09 at the rate of a building per week. Thanks for the visit; hope you enjoy the sites.

--Lileks 03/10/08