Assistant Professor
Office Location: UH 116
Phone Number: (262) 472-1595
Email Address: zimmermj@uww.edu

Dr. ZImmerman

JEFFREY ZIMMERMAN

Education: PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2003

Primary Area: Urban and Cultural Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Policy

 Dissertation Title: Conquering the Last Frontier: Public Housing, Gentrification and the Limits of New Urbanism in the Central City.

Selected Publications:

  • From Brew Town to Cool Town:  The Creative Class Redevelopment Strategy and the New Urban Entrepreneurialism in Central Milwaukee (under review)  
  • Does the Creative Class Create Value? (under review)
  • (2006) Do Wisconsin Cities Need to Attract More "Young Creatives"?:  An Assessment of Economic Performance and Creative Class Concentration in Wisconsin Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000.  Wisconsin Geographer.  (with T Craft)
  • (2004) Constructing the Genuine American City:  Neotraditionalism, New Urbanism and Neoliberalism and the Remaking of Downtown Milwaukee.  Cultural Geographies.  11(1):  238-58 (with J Kenny)
  • (2004) The Motorcycle That Made Milwaukee Famous:  Re-Constructing Milwaukee?s Image Through the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Harley Davidson.  Wisconsin Geographer. 
  • (2001) The "Nature" of Urbanism on the New Urbanist Frontier:  Sustainable Development, or Defense of the Suburban Dream.  Urban Geography.  22(3):  249-267 
  • (1997) Milwaukee's German Renaissance Twice Told:  Inventing and Recycling Landscape in America's German Athens", in R. Ostergren and T. Vale (eds.)  Wisconsin Land and Life:  Geographic Portraits of the State.  Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press.   (with S Hoelscher and T Bawden)

Courses:

  • Global Perspectives
  • Human Geography
  • Urban Geography
  • Urban Land Use Planning
  • Field Course in Urban/Historical Geography:  The Milwaukee Case Study 

 Editorial Activity:
 
Editor, The Wisconsin Geographer (2006)


 

Recent Conference Presentations: 

  • From the "Gray City" to the "Green City":  Urban sustainability, the provision of eco-amenities, and the making of the new Chicago.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.  April 2007. 
  • Enacting the "Urban Creativity Script":  Art and the speculative development of place in central Milwaukee.  Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Geographical Society, Whitewater, WI.  October 2006. 
  • Enacting Neoliberalism:  Assessing the Creative Class Redevelopment Strategy in Central Milwaukee.  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL.  March, 2006. 
  • Does the Creative Class Create Value?  (with Craft, T.)  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Philadelphia, PA.  January, 2005. 
  • The Historical Geography of Downtown Milwaukee, Presentation and Field Trip for the Annual Meeting of the Urban History Association, Milwaukee, WI.  October, 2004. 
  • From Brew Town to Cool Town:  The "Creative Class" Redevelopment Strategy and the New Urban Entrepreneurialism in Central Milwaukee.  Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Association of American Geographers and the Wisconsin Geographical Society, Oshkosh, WI.  October, 2004. 
  • Re-Thinking Plan 2008 and the Politics of Diversity.  UW-System Critical Connections Conference, Madison, WI.  February, 2004. 
Recent Invited Guest Lectures:
  • Prairie Crossing, IL:  Assessing its potential as a model for "Smart Growth"?.  Graduate Colloquium, Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalk, IL.  February 2007. 
  • From Brew Town to Cool Town:  Assessing the Creative Class Redevelopment Strategy in Central Milwaukee.  Colloquium, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 2005. 
  • Continuing the Discussion About "Smart Growth".  Guest Lecture to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Adventures in Lifelong Learning Program Annual Conference, October 2005. 
  • New Urbanism:  An Introduction to Architecture and Planning in the American City.  Adventures in Lifelong Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, mini-course taught in four evening sessions.  Fall, 2003. 
  • New Urbanism:  An Introduction to Architecture and Planning in the American City.  Adventures in Lifelong Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, special topic "Architecture and Urbanism".  June, 2003. 
  • Conquering the "Last Frontier":  Gentrification, New Urbanism and the redevelopment of Chicago's Public Housing.  Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate Student Symposium, April, 2003. 

Please visit my Home page