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Welcome to the archives of Better Cities & Towns, a publication founded by Robert Steuteville as New Urban News in 1996. This archive holds two decades of the best news and analysis on compact, mixed-use growth and development, from 1996 to 2015.
Doug Farr’s book Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature, published by Wiley and reviewed in the Dec. 2007 New Urban News, went into a second printing after only six weeks on the market. Farr has begun a national series of training seminars...
Most of the communities along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi are demanding that “Mississippi Cottages” — small, vernacular dwellings designed by new urbanists for Hurricane Katrina survivors — be hauled away by next spring.
Nearly 2,400 cottages...
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture, has been appointed to the US Commission of Fine Arts for four years by President George Bush.
Connie M. Moran was elected mayor of her hometown, Ocean Springs, Miss., in June 2005. Two months later, Hurricane Katrina changed almost everything.“Her leadership was immediately tested and she was a real stand-out among all the elected officials...
The nation’s largest nonprofit builder — known for a barebones approach — is moving forward with an ambitious and diverse neighborhood.What will apparently be the first complete new urban neighborhood developed by Habitat for Humanity was designed...
Edited by Robert Adam and Matthew HardyTradition Today takes readers, at a quick pace, over a lot of interesting terrain, most of it off the Modern beaten path. It’s a refreshing excursion.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $59,000 to the University of Miami’s Center for Urban and Community Design to document sustainable building practices and techniques. The Center, directed by Sonia Cháo, hosted a 2.5-day symposium in...
When was the last time you heard of a building being named for an urban planner? That rare event has just occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia, where a 34-story glass tower, to be erected in the Yaletown section of downtown, is being called “The...
Jennifer Henry, director of the LEED-Neighborhood Development program for the US Green Building Council, is leaving that organization at the end of June. She is moving to Chicago, where she will become real estate sector manager for the Natural...
Eco-urban legends will connect past and future of sustainable communities, while transportation summit will explore need for networks
Many lots in old neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, are just 25 feet wide, which is generally too narrow to satisfy current minimum standards for the construction of new houses. Consequently, 180 Degree Urban Design + Architecture has produced a...
The Routledge publishing house this spring launched the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. The multidisciplinary, international journal will be distributed three times a year both in print and online...