Wisconsin

Signs are pointing to Milwaukee's downtown resurgence.

Milwaukee business and civic leaders announce a new economic development initiative focused on the inner city.

Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist leads the effort to remove the city's 'freeway to nowhere' and reconnect a divided downtown.

Can Milwaukee become a national model for transforming brownfields into an engine for family-supporting jobs?

Ottawa County, Michigan officials develop a manure scented brochure to alert home buyers to some unadvertised aspects of country living.

Developer plan to transform the sprawling vacant complex of the Pabst Brewery to a residential and entertainment district.

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.

In Wisconsin, opponents of its "Smart Growth" law worry about erosion of properties rights and complain that land-use plans are too expensive.

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 Highland Park development will be replaced by more attractive housing in a $30 million HOPE VI project.

Smart City features an interview with Milwaukee Mayor and soon to be CNU president, John Norquist.

A new company promises to help universities pay for new sports facilities that include residential, retail and other commercial ventures.

Some cities are rediscovering the one-way, counterclockwise traffic circles known as roundabouts.

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

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.

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.

Milwaukee leads country in economic disparity for blacks

La Crosse, Wisconsin is gearing up for a new comprehensive plan with 18 objectives, in which land use figures prominently.