Milwaukee

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Milwaukees Growth

• An Exercise in Political Geography

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Population Growth

• 1840
• 1,712
• 1860
• 45,246
• 1880
• 115,587

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Consolidation

• Bay View - 1887

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Population Growth, cont.

• 1900 285,315
• 1920 457,147
• 1940 587,472
• 1960 - 741,324
• (2000 596,974)

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Annexation

• 1946
• Milwaukee 44.33
• sq. miles
• 1967
• Milwaukee 96.57
• sq. miles

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Suburbanization

• Incorporation
• defensive -?
• Commuter Suburbs
• Industrial Suburbs

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Milwaukee Suburbs, 1910 -1930

• Milwaukee
• Wauwatosa
• So. Milwaukee
• Whitefish Bay
• Cudahy
• Shorewood
• West Allis
• Fox Point
• River Hills

• 1910 1930
• 373,857 578,249
• 3,346 21,194
• 6,092 10,706
• 542 5,362
• 3,691 10,631
• 707 13,479
• 6,645 34,671
• 474
• 280

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Suburbanization Post WWII

• Milwaukee Journal,
• (Feb. 18, 57)
• Greenfields incorporation merely writes the
  last chapter in the planless and chaotic
  urbanization of government . . . The whole
  picture is frustrating, inefficient, expensive,
  and unintelligent. . . Every last acre of
  Milwaukee County in now incorporated . . .

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Why does it matter ?

• The fiscal squeeze of metropolitan
  fragmentation
• Service Demands vs. Revenue
• Mayor Maier Iron Ring of Suburbs
• (1960s)

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