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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.
Here’s your opportunity to contribute to CNU’s list of top highway-to-boulevard prospects. America’s highway-building era brought elevated freeways that cut huge swaths through our cities, decimating neighborhoods and reducing quality of life for...
Steven Coyle, a long-time new urbanist, has left HDR Town Planning to form his own firm, Town Green, based in Oakland, California. The firm specializes in green planning and form-based codes. The website is www.town-green.com.
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Photo 1 caption (on page 1): This streetscape is part of a revitalized downtown for Woodstock, Georgia — one of 15 winners of Charter Awards for 2008. See story on page 6.
Phil Angelides, chairman of the new Canyon-Johnson Urban Communities Fund, says there has been “very substantial progress in changing the thinking about how you design communities” since 1990, when he started developing Laguna West on the southern...
Patrick Square, a traditional neighborhood development, is breaking ground in Clemson, South Carolina, in March. Florida-based developer JMC Communities is seeking EarthCraft Community certification, a standard for sustainable residential...
A 45-acre town center that draws some of its architectural inspiration from a historic Shaker settlement may be built in Colonie, New York, north of Albany. New Loudon Road Associates, a development firm based in Schenectady, hired the New York...
Newly elected Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker announced in January that he wants to improve the city’s planning operation within six months, create a bikeway system, and revise building codes to conform to LEED standards. Becker, a planning...
Michigan new urbanists will soon have a new CNU chapter to help focus their efforts in creating a more walkable, sustainable, neighborhood-based Michigan. On January 23, fifteen CNU members came together in Lansing, Michigan, for the second meeting...
Back-to-back cottages — a model that could be used on small lots in many towns and cities — are under construction in the Bywater section of New Orleans. Corner Markers/Bywater LLC, a partnership of architect Andres Duany, New Towns publisher...
Redevelopment of 711-acre Mueller Airport combines New Urbanism, green features, and affordable housing.By early March, the first 50 families will have moved onto the site of the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, about three miles northeast...
Edited by Paul Stanton KibelThe MIT Press, 2007, 216 pp., $22 paperbackOf the six riverfronts carefully examined in this book, the one with the most exciting prospects is the Anacostia — sometimes referred to as Washington, DC’s “other river.” Much...