Why didn't Minneapolis gobble up its suburbs?
Minnesota's largest city, Minneapolis, is much smaller than cities elsewhere in the country that it considers peers -- like Seattle and Denver.
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Show Notes
Minnesota's largest city, Minneapolis, is much smaller than cities elsewhere in the country that it considers peers -- like Seattle and Denver. This is partly because the city did not annex its surrounding suburbs. (It is also because Minneapolis and St. Paul never merged, a topic for a future episode.) Eric Roper joins host Ash Miller to discuss why the greater Minneapolis area fragmented into a web of small cities -- instead of consolidating into a larger municipality.
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Why didn't Minneapolis gobble up its suburbs? (March 2023 Curious Minnesota article)