Wisconsin
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?
Re-dignifying Parking Garages
Long gone are the grand arched train stations welcoming you to a new city. Today, the universal entrance into our urban cities is a claustrophobic parking garage.
Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum receives rave reviews.
New Rules To Improve Water Quality In Wisconsin
New rules require developers and farmers to create buffers around rivers and streams, retain stormwater, detain sediments from construction sites, and reduce impervious surfaces in new developments.
Infrastructure As Civic Art
Milwaukee's new 6th Street bridge is a bold and daring design for a walkable city -- and one that the Department of Transportation nearly refused.
Wisconsin Town Becomes Front Line Of Explosive Growth
How will the bucolic college town of River Falls, 30 miles from downtown St. Paul, handle it's new position in the path of massive growth?
New Building, Thriving Downtown Give Racine Better Identity
Environmentally sensitive design is a heartening architectural trend.
School-area Roundabouts Pass The Test In Wisconsin
A study of two modern traffic roundabouts in the Green Bay metropolitan area is now available online from the Brown County Planning Commission.
Milwaukee Housing Authority Adopts New Urbanism
The transformed Lapham Park public housing project is an example of what good design based on New Urbanist principles can do.
Reservoir Could Become Valuable Green Space
A decommissioned could provide a valuable for dense neighborhood.
Streets Without Cars: A Documentary
"Streets Without Cars" is an hour-long documentary that explores the national pedestrian mall movement. (Video clip available.)
Smart Growth Law Sparks Land Use Battles
Wisconsin's Smart Growth directive angers communities.
A Push For Common Sense Zoning Enforcement
In Northern Wisconsin, a major win for property rights movement.
Innovative Art Deco Building Faces Uncertain Future
Columnist Whitney Gould makes the case for saving the 1930 A.O. Smith (now Tower Automotive) building, an overlooked "icon of the machine age" that was ahead of its time.
Trends In Open Space Preservation
Milwaukee's efforts to preserve open space in county parks exemplify a trend in open space preservation.
Wisconsin City Embraces New Urbanism
To avoid turning into bedroom community, Hartford, WI, embraces New Urbanism.
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.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
