The Missegregation of the Twin Cities: How the Minnesota Land Use Planning Act of 1976 Failed to Stably Integrate the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area

Flingai explains how the Minnesota Land Use Planning Act of 1976 (LUPA) failed to stably integrated the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area (known colloquially as the Twin Cities). He argues that focusing events such as the 1968 urban riots forced policy elites at the state and federal level to open up a policy window that enabled fair housing initiatives to enter federal, state, and local political agendas. He suggests how this story might have ended differently--how the state legislature could have structured LUPA to better withstand political pressures and fundamentally alter political structures to maintain its objectives.