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  24:Hrs Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Wed, Nov 19th, 2008 | Category: 24Hrs | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, manpower, boat ride, hmong, harley davidson, vietnam war, wolski's | 1

  Our man in Milwaukee gives a fuller re-cap of the 24:Hrs Milwaukee tour. Highlights include:a walking tour, a boat ride, dancing, closing Wolski’s and waiting an extra hour for the sun to rise. 

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• Web Exclusives

  Next American City in Milwaukee: Public Transportation Symposium

  Benjamin Gilbert | Thu, Oct 23rd, 2008 | Category: Events | City: Milwaukee | Tags: | 0

  During Next American City’s recent trip to Milwaukee, Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind moderated a symposium on public transportation. We present the full video here, exclusively on the Next American City website

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• Columnists

  24 Hours in Your Own Town

  Dave Steele | Wed, Oct 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, cream city, 24 hrs, bronz fonz, laverne and shirley | 1

  What happens when you set out to experience a city in 24 straight hours, with no sleep? 

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• The Daily Report

  One Urban Genius

  Nick Lalla | Wed, Sep 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: milwaukee, land use, twyla tharp, locavores, macarthur genius grants, will allen, urban farming | 1

  MacArthur Genius grant recipients were just announced. Save an urban farmer from Milwaukee, those working to improve cities directly were absent from the list, again.

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• NAC News

  24:HRS MILWAUKEE starts TOMORROW!

  Pooja Shah | Fri, Sep 19th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, pooja shah, 24:hrs, alex runner, on milwaukee | 2

  We’ve rested up and now we’re ready to spend 24 continuous hours in Milwaukee!

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• NAC News

  Diana Lind on Smart City Radio

  Next American City | Thu, Sep 11th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: milwaukee, diana lind, next american city, 24:hrs, smart city radio, carol coletta, radio | 2

  Ever wonder what Next American City’s editor sounds like? She sounds uncertain how to give a radio interview. Nonetheless, here she is talking about the magazine’s upcoming trip to Milwaukee — the plan for lectures, parties, and a 24:Hrs walking tour.

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• NAC News

  Next American City Heads to Milwaukee!

  Pooja Shah | Wed, Aug 13th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, diana lind, pooja shah, 24:hrs, university of wisconsin - milwaukee | 1

  Next American City is planning a four-day visit to Milwaukee where we will bring you a symposium, subscriber party, university visits and a 24:Hrs!

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• Columnists

  The Magical Museum?

  Dave Steele | Wed, Jul 30th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, calatrava, milwaukee art museum | 4

  Seven years after the opening of a bold cultural icon, how much has the Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum changed the Brew City? How much can any one building really change a city?

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• Columnists

  Beyond the Backyard Garden: Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Tue, Jun 10th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: | 2

  Thanks to industrialized agriculture, there’s a wide gulf between those who produce food and those who consume it. Too many city-dwellers lack access to nutritious, non-processed foods. Urban agriculture promises to change that. 

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• Columnists

  The New Milwaukeeans: Making Sense of Population Growth in the Cream City

  Dave Steele | Mon, May 19th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, downtown, suburbs, growth, jobs, schools, immigration, population growth, populatioin, latino, census, cream city | 3

  After forty years in the statistical doldrums, what does Milwaukee make of a sudden, slight increase in population? Local expert and urban enthusiast Dave Steele reports.

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• Columnists

  Solving Civic Problems in a Post-Fact Society

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: | 8

  In an age when facts don’t matter, how do cities build the consensus to make big plans? In a public sphere heavily influenced by talk radio and other media outlets, such as local blogs, where there is no clear line between fact and opinion, where outright falsehoods are presented as legitimate opinions, the billons of dollars in investment in Milwaukee’s Deep Tunnel are now deemed a massive waste. 

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• Columnists

  A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Chicago | Tags: | 1

  Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world. 

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• Columnists

  A Bronze Fonz? A Revealing Tussle over Public Art in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, downtown, tourism, chicago, art, 1970s, public art, fonzie, beer, picasso, tv characters | 8

  An uproar over a statue of the 1970s TV icon says more about its city than any piece of public art could. 

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• Columnists

  Destination Nomination: the Obama “Change-Train” Stops in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Mon, Mar 3rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, obama, hillary clinton, barack obama, election 2008, change train, change we can believe in, el rey | 0

  Last week my city came down with a fever. Symptoms include: sudden feelings of euphoria followed by a quiet, zen-like sense of anticipation; sudden boisterous gatherings of young people; throngs of people in the streets carrying signs and encouraging passing motorists to honk their horns; and long lines of voters, many voting for the first time. That’s right, Obamamania hit Milwaukee.

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• Headlines

  Microfinance in Queens, itinerant artists, Obamania in Milwaukee, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 21st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: san francisco, hillary clinton, barack obama, election 2008, meredith aska mcbride, las vegas, dubai, primaries, mike huckabee, subway, jackson heights, mohammad yunus, itinerant artists, sex offenders, voting gap | 0

  Voting gap divides the parties

  “In Tuesday’s election, 73% of those who went to the polls voted in the Democratic primary, to 27% on the GOP side—a huge difference in a state that in November 2004 was decided by about 11,400 votes."To be sure, the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton was more meaningful than the all-but-wrapped up Republican battle between McCain and Mike Huckabee. And that may have served as a magnet for independents and crossover voters.”

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• Columnists

  Celebrities descend upon Milwaukee: Who will do their dry-cleaning?

  Dave Steele | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: commentary, dave steele, milwaukee, condominiums, halle berry, dry-cleaning, screech, brewers, oprah, celebrities, east side, prospect avenue, gold coast, university club, high school of the arts | 1

  What do Oprah’s mom, the guy who played Screech on Saved by the Bell, and Halle Berry have in common? They either currently live, or have recently lived, along Milwaukee’s “Gold Coast:” Prospect Avenue, a row of ritzy condo towers lining the Lake Michigan shoreline. (Yes, that’s right: the Halle Berry.)

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• Columnists

  Environmentally-friendly development: Rust Belt to Green Belt in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Thu, Jan 24th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, industrial midwest, greenbelt, closed factories, hank aaron state trail bike path, rust belt development, sierra club | 5

  

  When most people think of the industrial Midwest, “environmentally-friendly development” is not usually the first thing to come to mind. But in Milwaukee, a city built on wetlands and bluffs on the shores of Lake Michigan—a city that rose to prominence as a center of heavy manufacturing—the rebirth of Menomonee Valley shows that the terms “industrial job creation” and “environmental sensitivity” need not be mutually exclusive.

  Long before Europeans settled in Milwaukee, the…

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• Columnists

  To beer or not to beer: Hops and economic development in Milwaukee

  Dave Steele | Thu, Oct 25th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, denver, miller brewing company, pabst, coors, schlitz, headquarters | 0

  A few weeks ago there was a story that received brief mention in the national business press, but which ran front and center on Milwaukee’s radar screen. Miller Brewing Company and Coors plan to merge their US-based beer making operations, in order to reduce administrative overhead to better compete with the 800 pound gorilla of American macro-brewers, Anheuser-Busch.

  This is a big deal in Milwaukee because Miller Brewing Company was born here and is still based here. It’s the only…

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• NAC News

  Introducing TNAC’s Man in Milwaukee, Dave Steele

  Matt Stroud | Mon, Oct 8th, 2007 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: | 2

  Dave’s our man in Milwaukee, and he’s going to rock out with his… socks out (or on?) every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. Ready? Go, Dave!

  My name is Dave Steele, I am 30 years old, and I live and work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I have a master’s degree in urban planning and I work for a non-profit educational foundation in Milwaukee, where I work to improve urban education by connecting schools in the city with neighborhoods and community resources.

  I am a believer in the great…

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