Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

West National Ave. on Milwaukee's south side is undergoing a remarkable multicultural evolution.

A new novel profiles city planner Daniel Burnham and serial-murderer Henry H. Holmes during the 1893 World's Fair.

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.

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.

A major benefactor clashes with art museum.

The first of a 3-part series re-evaluates how segregation in major urban cities is measured and publishes an updated index of the most integrated cities.

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.

Santiago Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum receives rave reviews.

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.

Environmentally sensitive design is a heartening architectural trend.

The transformed Lapham Park public housing project is an example of what good design based on New Urbanist principles can do.

A decommissioned could provide a valuable for dense neighborhood.

Wisconsin's Smart Growth directive angers communities.

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.

Milwaukee's efforts to preserve open space in county parks exemplify a trend in open space preservation.

To avoid turning into bedroom community, Hartford, WI, embraces New Urbanism.

In the booming economy of the 1990s, spending by cities in Wisconsin increased by 54% according to a new study released by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.

An overview of thirty years of the Clean Water Act: successes and failures.

Non-point pollution is the top cause of water pollution in Wisconsin.

Whitney Gould asks Milwaukee County, WI, to consider a counter-intuitive idea: to reduce traffic congestion, reduce number of freeway lanes.