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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.
Table 1 title: Housing price change for selected Zip Code areas
Table 2 title: Change in housing prices
New Urban News has reported for some time, based on observations and published stories, that urban neighborhoods have performed better than...
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...
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...
Rendering and photo shared captions: The series above from A Living Tradition explains an architectural solution to clothes drying — the Laundry Eave. At right is the vernacular-classical Transect.
By Paul LukezFrom the beginning days of the movement, there was a genuine desire on the part of several of the New Urbanism’s founders and other early members of CNU to bring Modernists and other proponents of the architectural avant-garde into...
Officials in Arlington County, Virginia see a growing likelihood that a modern streetcar system will be installed on a 4.7-mile stretch of the Columbia Pike. The streetcar proposal emerged from planning efforts that produced a form-based code for...
A newly produced 30-minute DVD helps builders and developers in new urban communities learn about cohousing. The DVD features Nevada City Cohousing in Nevada City, California; Eastern Village in Silver Spring, Maryland; and Wild Sage in Boulder,...
Architect Patrick Pinnell, who recently moved his office to Chester, Connecticut, was featured in the “Sketch Pad” column of the April 6 New York Times real estate section. Describing himself in the article as “a card-carrying New Urbanist,” Pinnell...