Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Transportation Wish List
Wisconsin's Department of Transportation polls 1,100 residents to find out their top transportation priorities.
Green Bay: Beyond Perception
A special, five-day series examines the challenges Green Bay, Wisconsin faces as it tries to revitalize its downtown and riverfront.
An Arts Building That Is A Work Of Art
Madison's new Cesar Pelli-designed arts center succeeds in taming challenges of site and scale.
Cities Need A Wi-Fi Network
Madison, WI, considers setting up a city-wide wireless internet network.
Milwaukee's Architecture And Aesthetics
Whitney Gould, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel urban spaces columnist, answers questions from readers.
Urbanism In A Big Box
Madison's Urban Design Commission makes a surprising recommendation.
Suburbs Suffer Greater Manufacturing Job Loss Than City
Experts in Wisconsin try to account for why the greatest number of manufacturing job lost in the metropolitan Milwaukee area were in the suburbs.
Many Definitions Of Sprawl
A selection of opinions about urban sprawl.
Parking Lot Design That Is Kind To Pedestrians
All too often parking is treated as a leftover -- essential, but not worthy of good design. A little thought can make a huge difference, writes columnist Whitney Gould.
Riding Around Town In A Greasemobile
Rising gas prices got you down? Cheap fuel for your car may be as close as the deep fryer at your local diner.
Freeway Razing Sets Stage For Development
The Milwaukee Common Council approved a plan on June 15 for redeveloping a mile-long corridor on an edge of downtown where the blighting influence of the Park East Freeway has been eliminated.
What Goes In An Empty Big Box?
Vacant big box superstores can be hard to reuse, but some communities are adapting them creatively
Brewtown Is Brimming With Bridges
By the end of 2005, Milwaukee will boast eight design-savvy new bridges.
Inclusionary Zoning Comes To Madison
New housing projects in Wisconsin's capital must include affordable units.
Revitalizing A Blighted Industrial Area
Emphasizing jobs and the environment a plan aims to revitalize Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley.
Who Should Be On Planning Commissions?
What happens when a Plan Commission has no architect, landscape architect, planner or developer from the private sector?
Demanding More Of Gas Station Design
A nondescript gas station in suburban Mequon serves as a positive example of what can happen when the city demands more creativity from developers.
Big Benefits to Designing Small Spaces
Whitney Gould of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel considers the value and opportunities for the renewal of marginal, residual spaces.
All Cooped Up
Zoning changes welcome domestic chickens in single family neighborhoods.
Amish Squeezed Out By Suburbia
A sign of tensions between urban and rural landscapes, Amish families are moving away from their traditional settlements.
Pagination
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello