Minnescraper

I was at a gathering recently with techno savvy peeps and the TV was hooked up to the laptop for public usage. One on the guests brought up this website Minnescraper which is the bastion of internet news concerning urban Development. The guy told me it contains people who are on the inside and will sometimes post on forums saying 'I saw over my co-workers shoulder today something that looked like he was working on this ...'

There does seem to be a lot of interesting info on the page if you don't mind getting lost in it for a half hour or so. But if ones knows how to enjoy getting lost is is a very pleasurable experience.

Thats mostly how I have learned about the parts of the city that I would otherwise have no idea about. I remember the first week I lived in Minneapolis, I was visiting a friend and left his house late at night and went the wrong way on Hennepin ave from NE. I ended up near Snelling Ave before I realized how lost I was. It was strange to drift through old industrial areas on a late summer evening. Coming from St Cloud it seemed so foreign. Lurking buildings emptied of workers, most silent but a few still churning, steam rising off their pipes and I could see the skyline in the distance. Thank God for cell phones because it would have been a very tired and lonley night traversing my way blindly back to Powderhorn Park.

If your into skyscrapers, I kind of like this site skyscraperpage.com here is thier diagram of the worlds tallest