Introduction -- Early city land patterns -- Milwaukee Avenue : the street, its houses and its landscape -- Construction and function -- Transformation begins -- Urban renewal and its discontents -- The Minneapolis Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) -- The Seward West Project Area Committee (PAC) -- The Seward West Renewal Plan -- PAC planning begins -- PAC gains a political victory -- Milwaukee Avenue planning moves forward -- History finally "happens" on Milwaukee Avenue -- Into the thick of planning -- Rehab begins -- The individual rehab program (if you had a hammer) -- Harold and Connie Fournier -- Legal snafus : forming the homeowners association -- Designing the new to fit with the old -- Milwaukee Avenue today -- Finding what it means -- The need for rediscovering walkable communities.