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Minneapolis Food Deserts

After living for 3 years on the University of Minnesota campus, I decided I couldn’t stand it any longer: I needed a car. Getting groceries was tough.

Mary Pattison, my fiancée, is currently taking an urban planning course for her master’s degree in GIS. For her final project, she collected a list of grocery stores in Minneapolis and used a Euclidean distance analysis to calculate minimum walking distance of any point in Minneapolis to a grocery store.