In Roseville, the automobile shifted the development from the old North-South streets of St. Paul to the new interstates. At the same time the interstates made possible the creation of the regional shopping center, the gathering of dozens of stores and services. The automobile encouraged, perhaps even demanded, new relationships in the design of homes. In Eden Prairie the tendency for domestic amenity to teach and discipline commercial and industrial ways has continued with the multiplication of domestic landscaping. A review of these three places makes it perfectly clear that urban land and buildings imagery has set strongly toward using greening, lawn, shrubs, flowers, and trees as a standard for good urban practice.
Opportunity lies where it has always been.
The houses and buildings that cover the urban landscape are by no means the safest, most suitable to their tasks and activities, nor the most comfortable that ingenuity can devise. Moreover, the new suburbs, like the old city before them, are far from achieving the fitness they could to the natural systems of the city region. They suggest as well the possibilities of design improvement at every level. If we read the images correctly, they have been moving steadily in the direction of making urban elements safer, cleaner, and more in conformity to the standards Americans have sought in their domestic life. Yes, in Minneapolis it is.