Smart Growth Seminars
Hosted by the UWM Department of Urban Planning
”Grounded in principle; practiced on the ground.”
Seminar Schedule Fall 2004
Past Programs:
Energy and Smart Growth:
APA Energy Policy
Exploring Sprawl
Summary (Draft, not for citation), presented at the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning, November 2000
This paper
summarizes the information presented at the Exploring Sprawl seminars held
during 1999-2000, supplemented by additional literature review on many topics
related to sprawl. For each topic, the
paper attempts to identify the key empirical questions and summarize the
empirical literature reflecting on answers to the key questions.
Resources:
Identifying and
Mitigating Local Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing in Waukesha, County,
Wisconsin, by Sammis White and Mary Kay Schuetz, 1992
Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District’s “Green Page”—http://www.mmsd.com/environment/enviro.asp
Information
on water conservation, green roofs, downspouts and rain barrels or rain
gardens, about your lawn, and about your car.