Stories indexed under: Urban and regional planning
Total: 3
- Urban planning pioneer Kaufman remembered Jan. 14, 2013 Jerry Kaufman liked to joke that he didn’t see a tree until he was 16. And yet the man who grew up in an apartment in Queens, New York, went on to become a huge advocate for the land he so cherished, teaching urban planning for more than 30 years at UW-Madison. Kaufman died Thursday, Jan. 10, at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer.
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Street markets are this professor’s laboratory
Oct. 28, 2009
Alfonso Morales didn’t sit in a library to do research for his graduate degrees. Instead, he worked as a vendor in Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street Market, where he saw firsthand that public markets serve as fertile ground for entrepreneurs and new businesses, gathering places for communities and an entry point into the economy and society for new arrivals to the United States.
- State, local governments benefit from professor's planning expertise March 7, 2007 Thinking ahead generally does not top America's to-do lists. But professor Brian Ohm's area is land use and community development, and he is on a mission to help improve planning practice in Wisconsin and beyond.