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Title: Shapefile of the 1968 Ecological Study for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Composite Intrinsic Suitability)

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Dates

  • Issued: December 22, 2020
  • Coverage: 1968
  • Coverage: 1968 to 1968

Publishers

  • U-Spatial

Summary

A digitized version of Ian McHarg's original 1968 Ecological Study for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area: Composite Intrinsic Suitability. These maps were the basis for the 1969 report An Ecological Study of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, which provided a framework for land use planning throughout the metro area.

Subjects

  • Hennepin County, Minnesota
  • Ramsey County, Minnesota
  • Anoka County, Minnesota
  • Dakota County, Minnesota
  • Washington County, Minnesota
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Bloomington, Minnesota
  • Carver County, Minnesota
  • Scott County, Minnesota
  • Minnesota
  • Land use
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-93.9791,-92.8021,45.361,44.4981)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-93.9791,-92.8021,45.361,44.4981)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • https://conservancy.umn.edu/pages/drum/policies/#terms-of-use

Citation

Paul Jacobs, Rebecca Barney, Len Kne, Ya Tao, Dan Milz. Shapefile of the 1968 Ecological Study for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Composite Intrinsic Suitability). U-Spatial. Polygon data, Vector data. https://doi.org/10.13020/dqp3-c961

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • eng