{"id":32818,"date":"2016-04-21T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=32818"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:46:44","slug":"made-in-milwaukee-urban-planning-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/made-in-milwaukee-urban-planning-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in Milwaukee &#8211; Urban planning in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city in Switzerland has adopted urban design guidelines made in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32819\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2016\/04\/SWISSTIWN_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a development plan for the Swiss city of Rorschach. (Provided by Ray Issacs, Judith R\u00fctsch)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ray Isaacs, associate professor of architecture, and colleague Judith R\u00fctsch, director of planning at Basler and Hofmann a Swiss-based firm, developed the urban planning and design strategies for the city of Rorschach on the shore of Lake Constance in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Developers interested in the city\u2019s L\u00f6wenstrasse West Area approached Rohrschach officials about building there. City officials then approached Isaacs and R\u00fctsch to help them develop recommendations for development.<\/p>\n<p>Issacs and R\u00fctsch developed a plan that would coordinate future buildings in the area as well as broader improvements in infrastructure \u2013 including connectivity, pedestrian networks, public open space, rainwater management and integration with other areas of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Rohrschach City Council recently approved the design guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city in Switzerland has adopted urban design guidelines made in Milwaukee. Ray Isaacs, associate professor of architecture, and colleague Judith R\u00fctsch, director of planning at Basler and Hofmann a Swiss-based firm, developed the urban planning and design strategies for the city of Rorschach on the shore of Lake Constance in Switzerland. Developers interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40008,"featured_media":32819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[249],"section":[],"display_categories":[],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[145,344,144],"class_list":["post-32818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","tag-community-engagement","uwmnews-feed-architecture","uwmnews-feed-arts-architecture","uwmnews-feed-architecture-urban-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Made in Milwaukee - Urban planning in Switzerland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A city in Switzerland has adopted urban design guidelines made in Milwaukee. 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