Wisconsin
Saving The Inner City Will Save The City
Milwaukee business and civic leaders announce a new economic development initiative focused on the inner city.
Milwaukee's 'Freeway To Nowhere'
Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist leads the effort to remove the city's 'freeway to nowhere' and reconnect a divided downtown.
Milwaukee's New Urban Vision
Can Milwaukee become a national model for transforming brownfields into an engine for family-supporting jobs?
Friday Funny: Brochure With Scratch-and-Sniff Manure Scent
Ottawa County, Michigan officials develop a manure scented brochure to alert home buyers to some unadvertised aspects of country living.
New Downtown Entertainment District For Milwaukee
Developer plan to transform the sprawling vacant complex of the Pabst Brewery to a residential and entertainment district.
Revolt Against Regionalism
Wisconsin's 4-year-old law requiring all its local governments to develop "comprehensive land-use plans" by 2010 is creating a backlash at the grassroots level and in the state legislature.
Lawmakers Seek To Repeal 'Smart Growth' Law
In Wisconsin, opponents of its "Smart Growth" law worry about erosion of properties rights and complain that land-use plans are too expensive.
Residents Fight Sprawl To Protect Rural Character
A new system that limits the number of homes built annually has pitted large landowners against residents who fear the loss of rural character.
Milwaukee Undoes 'Urban Renewal'
Milwaukee Highland Park development will be replaced by more attractive housing in a $30 million HOPE VI project.
What Does It Take To Transform A City?
Smart City features an interview with Milwaukee Mayor and soon to be CNU president, John Norquist.
A New Concept For College Town Stadium Districts
A new company promises to help universities pay for new sports facilities that include residential, retail and other commercial ventures.
A Roundabout Turnaround
Some cities are rediscovering the one-way, counterclockwise traffic circles known as roundabouts.
Milwaukee's Shopping District Transforming
West National Ave. on Milwaukee's south side is undergoing a remarkable multicultural evolution.
Civil War V. Civic Good
Old and new clash on site proposed for development of a 24-story glass office tower. Several Civil War-era buildings will be razed if construction continues as planned.
'Blue Shirt' Might Stay In Closet
At a time when northern cities want to shed their "rust-belt" image as manufacturing centers, a piece of proposed public art in Milwaukee reinforces that very notion. But it might not do so for much longer.
Cash Collides With Taste
A major benefactor clashes with art museum.
New Roads, New Approach
Reason's Bob Poole shows how outside-the-box thinking and entrepreneurial action can help Wisconsin (and other states) expand personal automobility by rebuilding decaying roads.
Forty-nine Cents On The Dollar
Milwaukee leads country in economic disparity for blacks
Land Use Is Top Priority
La Crosse, Wisconsin is gearing up for a new comprehensive plan with 18 objectives, in which land use figures prominently.
Saving Taliesin
Frank Lloyd Wright felt that buildings should be a natural circumstance of the land. But how can his materpieces be saved from nature?
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
EMC Planning Group, Inc.
Planetizen
Planetizen
Mpact (formerly Rail~Volution)
Great Falls Development Authority, Inc.
HUDs Office of Policy Development and Research
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
