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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.
“The miracle of New Urbanism is its simplicity. [Andres] Duany has designed whole towns under the movement’s principles — like Seaside, Fla., or Kentlands, Md. — and to walk their streets is to be transported back decades, before McMansions and SUVs...
Andres Duany identifies four main target groups and their outlooks.
To produce sustainable buildings and communities, it’s important to know who would like to live in them. Andres Duany identifies four target markets, which differ in outlook and...
Edited by Timothy Mennel, Jo Steffens, and Christopher KlemekMunicipal Art Society and Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, 64 pp., $17.95 paperback
The City of Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University have jointly hired urban planners Goody Clancy of Boston to write design guidelines for Collegetown, a historic mixed-use center adjacent to the university. Code Studio of Austin, Texas, was also...
A sense of urgency ran through the Green Architecture and Urbanism Council held in Alexandria, Virginia, and Washington, DC, just after Thanksgiving. Like other councils, this one was an independently organized meeting of peers (many of them CNU...
Mike Watkins, who has headed up the Washington, DC, office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company for 19 years, has enrolled in the inaugeral class of a master’s program with an emphasis on classical design. The program is offered jointly by the...
Rendering 1 caption (appears on p. 1): A main street and urban center are proposed on the site of a defunct shopping mall in Utah owned by retail titan General Growth Properties. See story on page 6.
Two Pacific Northwest HOPE VI developments that combine well-connected street networks and natural drainage systems were among the winners of the 2007 National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement presented by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
By Todd W. Mansfield, Ross P. Yockey, and L. Beth YockeyAbecedary Press, 2007, 292 pp., $24.95 hardcover.It’s troubling when the chairman of the Urban Land Institute — Todd Mansfield, who for several years was president of the Disney subsidiary that...
Housing construction and mixed-use development are flourishing near commuter rail stations that carry Long Islanders into New York City, The New York Times reported. Condominiums have been completed or planned within walking distance of stations in...
By a margin of 62 to 38 percent, Oregon voters last month resoundingly rolled back many of the effects of a 2004 ballot measure that had weakened land-use planning. Three years ago, a ballot initiative known as Measure 37 required governments to pay...
Island Press has released a thoroughly updated second edition of Douglas Porter’s 1997 book, Managing Growth in America’s Communities. In the new 335-page edition ($35 paperback, $70 hardcover), Porter, a consultant on land use planning and policy...