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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.
Photo 1 caption (on page 1): White concrete tile roofs give Alys Beach in Florida a distinctive look. See article on page 10.
Edited by Stephen R. Kellert, Judith H. Heerwagen, and Martin L. MadorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008, 400 pp., $75 hardcover
Transit-oriented residential development generates far fewer automobile trips than conventional development, according to recent research conducted by PB PlaceMaking, Robert Cervero, the Urban Land Institute, and the Center for Transit-Oriented...
Baldwin Park, a large TND in Orlando, recorded 282 new and existing home sales in 2007, down from 448 sales in 2006, according to a recent report in the Orlando Sentinel. The peak year was 2005, when 524 houses were sold. House values have held up...
Seventeen blocks of Pratt Street in Baltimore would be upgraded into a grand “Avenue of the Inner Harbor” if a design concept produced by Ayers/Saint/Gross in association with the Olin Partnership is carried out. The two firms received a Downtown...
Over the next 12 months, individuals associated with CNU and the Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) will work on making refinements to a guide the two organizations have produced: Context Sensitive Solutions in Developing Major Urban Thoroughfares...
n the 1960s, two elevated Interstate highways were built along the edges of an old, mixed-use area north of downtown San Antonio. The result —no surprise, in retrospect — was that the area pretty much languished for the next 40 years. Now, however,...
The Bywater Cottages in New Orleans have more than one floor of living space, contrary to what we reported in the March issue. Diane Dorney, a partner in their development, says the second level contains a large loft with a bathroom.
Brookings Institution’s Urban Markets Initiative and the Center for Neighborhood Technology launched an interactive mapping website April 9 that allows people to calculate the cost of housing and transportation — by neighborhood — in 52 metropolitan...
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley introduced legislation in March to aggressively promote transit-oriented development (TOD). “For decades in our State and in our country, our transportation system has followed land use,” said O’Malley. “Now, we must...
With the walkable, neighborhood-based development favored by new urbanists becoming fast established as a needed remedy to the central threats facing the earth’s environment — and the hazards of oil dependency — the Austin Congress became the place...
Daniel Parolek, Karen Parolek, and Paul Crawford have identified nine errors that people commonly make when designing and applying form-based codes (FBCs).