Wisconsin

Frank Lloyd Wright felt that buildings should be a natural circumstance of the land. But how can his materpieces be saved from nature?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Environmentally sensitive design is a heartening architectural trend.

A study of two modern traffic roundabouts in the Green Bay metropolitan area is now available online from the Brown County Planning Commission.

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.

"Streets Without Cars" is an hour-long documentary that explores the national pedestrian mall movement. (Video clip available.)

Wisconsin's Smart Growth directive angers communities.

In Northern Wisconsin, a major win for property rights movement.

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.

Milwaukee, WI, ranked eighth in a survey of population density of nation's metro areas.

Green Bay, WI, City Council has approved a Smart Growth comprehensive plan.

A look at the effectiveness of Wisconsin's Smart Growth legislation two years after it was enacted.

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.