Aaron M. Renn

All Things Aaron

  • Home
  • Bio
  • Press
  • Archives
    • By Date
    • By City
    • Podcasts
    • Reviews
    • Articles in Governing Magazine
    • Articles in the Guardian
    • Articles in City Journal
    • Articles in New Geography
  • Get Posts by RSS
  • Podcast

Milwaukee’s Future as Part of Greater Chicagoland

May 13, 2013 By Aaron M. Renn

Last summer I was invited to speak at a conference called "Milwaukee's Future in the Chicago Megacity" put on by the Marquette University School of Law and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It was an interesting day of conversation about mega-regional integration between the two metros. In follow-up, Marquette Lawyer magazine asked me to write a piece for them about it. I'm including the full text of that article below. However, the current issue of the magazine has a couple of other major articles on the same topic. These are "Thinking and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicago, Demographics and Economic Development, Milwaukee, Planning, Transport, and Environment

Milwaukee’s Relationship with the Chicago Mega-City Revisited

December 20, 2012 By David Holmes

[ I am going to take a break until early 2013. See you folks in the New Year. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this piece by David Holmes that follows up on my "Don't Fly Too Close to the Sun" piece. He makes some of the same points I did at the conference, as well as some new ones I found interesting. Bye for now! - Aaron. ] I was intrigued by Aaron’s recent post "Don't Fly Too Close to the Sun Piece" which focused on the relationship between Milwaukee and Chicago and the notion of whether “proximity to Chicago or another mega-city … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicago, Demographics and Economic Development, Milwaukee, Planning, Transport, and Environment

Don’t Fly Too Close to the Sun

October 21, 2012 By Aaron M. Renn

I was honored to speak at a conference in Milwaukee over the summer called Milwaukee's Future in the Chicago Mega-City. Chicago and Milwaukee are about 90 miles apart on I-94. There's an Amtrak link that makes the journey in about 90 minutes. The two cities have been sprawling such that there's now more or less continuous development along the lakefront between the two cities. Milwaukee has been a challenged city economically and demographically. Chicago has had its own serious problems, but has seen its already muscular core boom in terms of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Boston, Chicago, Demographics and Economic Development, Milwaukee, Providence

Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland 2A – Onshore Outsourcing

February 22, 2009 By Aaron M. Renn

This the third installment of my four part series about ideas to create competitive advantage through reconnecting Chicago with its traditional greater Midwestern city-region. (Essential background reading is in Chicago: A Declaration of Independence. Part 1a is on Metropolitan Connections. Part 1b is on High Speed Rail). To refresh, in my kickoff of the year of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Burnham Plan in Chicago, I argued that while Chicago was performing well in a globalized world, it was only riding the wave of globalization … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicago, Demographics and Economic Development, Indianapolis, Milwaukee

Chicago: Reconnecting the Hinterland, Part 1B – High Speed Rail

February 15, 2009 By Aaron M. Renn

The first installment in my series on ideas for reconnecting Chicago with its natural expanded region in the Midwest focused on what could be enabled by linking Milwaukee and Indianapolis to Chicago via high speed rail. This makes it a good time to talk about Midwest high speed rail generally. There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the idea of creating a Midwest high speed rail network. The federal government has already designated a system of Midwest rail corridors. There's a lobbying organization pushing it called the Midwest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Chicago, Milwaukee, Planning, Transport, and Environment

Get my eBook The Urban State of Mind for your Kindle from Amazon.

About Aaron M. Renn


 
Aaron M. Renn is an opinion-leading urban analyst, consultant, speaker, and writer on a mission to help America’s cities and people thrive and find real success in the 21st century. (Photo Credit: Daniel Axler)
 
Email: aaron@aaronrenn.com
Full Bio

Trending Posts

  • Nine Reasons Why Detroit Failed
  • New England vs. Midwest Culture
  • Suburban Blight in Kansas City
  • Heartland Intelligence
  • Coronavirus and the Future of Remote Work

Disclosures

Links on this site may contain embedded “affiliate codes.” Purchases made through these links may result in a payment to me.
 
Header design by Carl Wohlt.
Header images via Shutterstock.

Copyright © 2006-2020 Urbanophile, LLC, All Rights Reserved - Click here for copyright information and disclosures