Article: Walking tour

Back in the spring of 2008, not so long ago but seeming like another era, Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz journeyed to our sister city of Freiburg, Germany, a Madison-sized municipality of around 200,000. While there, he observed the Vauban neighborhood, a planned "car-light" area that espoused the latest in environmentally aware living. He came back bursting with plans for a northeast Madison neighborhood developed along the same ethic.

Isthmus columnist Rick Berg, charged with upholding the conservative end of the paper's opinion spectrum, had some derisive things to say about Cieslewicz's exuberance at the time, but to his credit, he decided to go see for himself. This week he writes about ...

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