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A Spectacular Green Neighborhood Is Brewing In Milwaukee

September 28, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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    Milwaukee’s newest trendy neighborhood is likely to become one of its best, and almost certainly its greenest.  The Brewery, an environmentally sensitive restoration and adaptation of historic structures among the decaying wreckage of the former Pabst Brewing Company, is already home to striking residential... [read more]

Scaling Up Solutions: Aquaponics

August 15, 2011 by Grown in the City
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There’s an inherent tension in the local food system movement: whatis the proper scale? Some, for example, promote the radical home economics approach, encouraging hyper-local, backyard farming for self-sufficiency. Others advocate for the Community Supported Agriculture model, which begins to use economies of scale to spread the risk... [read more]

A Potential Body of Landscape Urbanism - Part 1

November 3, 2010 by Jason King
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My questions .  A reader (and fellow former North Dakotan Brook Meier) offered some projects from a firm he used to work for - LA Dallman from Milwaukie, Wisconsin.  He mentioned the collective Crossroads project, which he succinctly summed up as "A multi-part urban story that links transit-ways and neighborhoods while... [read more]

Core City Educational Attainment

October 20, 2010 by Aaron Renn
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I’ve noted before how the fate of central cities and their regions seem to be linked. While again I can’t draw an arrow of causation, it’s rare to see a thriving region with a sinking central city. It’s almost a truism that one of the most important drivers of urban success is educational attainment. So let’s take a quick look at... [read more]

City Profile: Milwaukee by UrbanMilwaukee

June 29, 2010 by Aaron Renn
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[ Here's another installment in my series of city profiles, in which a blogger in a city I don't write much about showcases their town and blog for you. Today's entry is about Milwaukee, and comes to us from Dave Reid of UrbanMilwaukee - Aaron. ]     New Milwaukee is still a great place, on a great lake.  “A Great... [read more]

So Many Roads

November 10, 2009 by Chris Timmerman
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Writing about infrastructure is everywhere these days... or at the very least, all over the parts of the Internet that I frequent. Here's a partial roundup of noteworthy recent road-related gems. Just a few of many, really:First, Shawn Micallef  of Spacing -- one of my favorite publications -- travels the length of Spadina Avenue,... [read more]

"We Americans are all infrastructure - and no people."

November 9, 2009 by John Michlig
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Excellent piece from this Sunday's paper:A void paved over with concrete - JSOnline. Posted: Nov. 7, 2009By Richard L. BirchMy wife and I own an apartment in the European city where her parents came from. Almería's population is over 200,000, and it's been around for hundreds of years.As a pedestrian, one is in constant negotiation... [read more]

Milwaukee bounces back, sustainably

October 5, 2009 by Kaid Benfield
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        It's been terrific to observe and report on America's great downtown comebacks, quite clearly a trend at this point. The latest set of facts I have run across concerns Milwaukee, courtesy of the very well-written blog Urban Engagement Webcity.  The story cites progressive zoning changes that... [read more]