Talk:Uptown, Minneapolis

message: A couple of recommendations:
1.  The Walker "LIBRARY" sculpture (and the library itself) are no longer there.  I'd like to see the article edited to reflect this.
2.  The "businesses" section of the article would be better served by being a list, rather than being shoehorned into a paragraph.
Whorticulture (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I get what you're saying, but there isn't any reason for "Southwest" to be capitalized in that term.  There is no neighborhood designation known as Southwest Minneapolis; it's not even thought of as a hugely distinct area, like South Minneapolis (or, maybe even better yet, North Minneapolis), which arguably should or could be capitalized (though I wouldn't personally).  By "Southwest Minneapolis," you're really saying the southwest quadrant of Minneapolis, or the southwestern part of the city. Since  "southwestern" is the adjective form of "southwest," I think it's most correct.  I'd be open to any comments.  Moncrief 01:20, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
**I disagree.  Southwest is a very particular designation for a large part of the city.  It's not a quadrant.  It's a collection of neighborhoods.  It's referred to all the time, with caps.  For example, here's one of my favorite papers, the Southwest Journal. dfrankow 00:38, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

message: I have lived in Minneapolis both in and near Uptown for 15 years. I don't think that anybody who actually lives in Minneapolis refers to the geographic boundaries of Uptown as broadly as they are described in this article. (at least to the north and east) The area mentioned covers many other well established neighborhoods like The Wedge, Lyn-Lake, and Kenwood. People who refer to Uptown this broadly are not from the area usually. I am going to edit that part of the description.
*I have lived in Uptown for over 10 years, and I disagree with your more tightly-defined geographic boundaries. The Wedge and Lyn-Lake are generally considered sub-sections within Uptown. If you disagree, explain this picture from Google maps that clearly shows two businesses with "Uptown" in their names, within the Lyn-Lake area (the corner of Lake St. and Aldrich Ave.):
:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=minneapolis&ll=44.948361,-93.289686&spn=0.000015,0.017885&hnear=Minneapolis,+Hennepin,+Minnesota&gl=us&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=44.948358,-93.289806&panoid=00hDTy9Er4VvUwhRJszARg&cbp=12,38.1,,0,6.1
:According to the boundaries as currently defined in the article, the two businesses in this picture ("The Uptown Hair District" and the "Uptown Lake Apartments") would not be in Uptown. Neither would the Uptown Diner (26th & Hennepin). I think a more commonly accepted definition of the borders of Uptown would be the four neighborhoods that converge at the corner of Hennepin and Lake - East Isles, Lowry Hill East, Ecco, and CARAG. In other words, from Franklin Ave in the north to 36th St in the south, and from E Calhoun Parkway/Lake of the Isles Parkway E in the west to Lyndale Ave in the east.
*I too am a resident of Minneapolis... as for the western boundry. France Ave is the western border of Mpls (http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@bis/documents/maps/convert_264339.pdf) so I believe the article is wrong in stating Highway 100 as the western boundry. Past France Ave a completely differenent demographic shows up, independent of Uptown. Otherwise I agree that Wedge & Lyn-Lake are generally considered part of the Eastern side of Uptown. For another perspective - http://minneapolis.about.com/od/minneapolisneighborhoods/p/uptown.htm   Sceptre1067 (talk) 15:18, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Geographic Boundaries

message: Why are there so many businesses listed in this article? Rx StrangeLove 19:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless someone strongly objects I'm going to take most of them out, they don't serve any purpose and we're not a directory...Rx StrangeLove 19:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Business listings 

message: Okay, I consider myself Mpls savvy so let me propose this idea to mess up the article.  Uptown is not an official neighborhood and those who OWN (not rent) in the proper neighborhoods (Lowry, Whittier, etc) don't consider themselves really part of an Uptown n'hood but identify closely to that of the actual neighborhoods. Let me be bold and say that the Uptown "neighborhood" is an idea perpetuated by the business association and unbeknowest Twin Citians and not the residents nor long-time Minneapolitans themselves. In this case, Uptown should only be referred to as say a "commercial district" or a "popular area" WITH a mention that people frequently confuse Uptown as a neighborhood because they do not understand the centuries-old history of Minneapolis neighborhoods. This is so that people on Wikipedia are not confused by the fact that our NRP has no mention of Uptown and realize Uptown is a creation of suburbanites. The wording such should be changed to reflect this. Similarly I've done this to the Lyn-Lake article which again is an admitted creation of their business association in order to get suburbanites more familiar with the area. I have nothing against district-identity (ie: Eat Street (Whittier), Broadway (Near North), Warehouse District (North Loop) but this is an important distinction to make. Davumaya 19:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neighborhood or commercial district or area/place? And those who don't live there versus those who do 

message: Here is the issue. I am going to make improvements but have fallen into a bit of a quandary. We have the official neighborhood articles (ie: CARAG, Minneapolis Calhoun-Isles, Minneapolis Lowry Hill, Minneapolis) and then we have "Uptown." Now aren't we technically duplicating everything here? And if we end up realizing we are duplicating everything, where do we merge or redirect? Or more properly, where does one article stop and the other pick up. For example Lowry Hill was distinctly separate until the advent of the Lakes Area, so the histories are different. But today they are fairly the same. .:DavuMaya:. 17:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge

message: I've noticed that many other wikipedia pages talking about an area or a city has a section discussing schools. does anyone disagree or agree with adding a section specifically discussing schools? I think it would be very useful for many people who are taking a look at this page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sahm1504 (talk • contribs) 04:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools