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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.
Laura Hall has joined with Robert Alminana to form Hall Alminana, an urban design firm with offices in San Francisco and Santa Rosa, California. Laura Hall’s previous partner, Lois Fisher, now practices under the name Fisher Town Design in Santa...
Pioneer emphasized architecture’s role in “perpetual rebirth of cities.”��
David Lewis, the pioneering educator and founder of the firm Urban Design Associates, became the fifth recipient of CNU’s Athena Medal for lifetime achievement in a November...
Product diversity, closeness to transit, and the appeal of urban living help offset the biggest housing decline in years. Sales of new housing slowed in August to the most laggard pace in seven years, and some conventional homebuilders reported...
A major suburban center near Baltimore will likely become much more congenial for pedestrians, thanks to a six-day charrette sponsored by Baltimore County. The charrette, led by Stuart Sirota of TND Planning Group, produced a plan that calls for...
Most of the action and rhetoric on the US-Mexico border has to do with building fences, tightening security, and preventing Mexicans from entering the US illegally. In the midst of all this, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists has been...
The developers of Prairie Crossing in Grayslake, Illinois, 40 miles northwest of the Chicago Loop, are creating a mixed-use town center adjacent to two Metra rail stations served by a total of 57 commuter trains each weekday. Ben Ranney, whose firm...
In the September issue, we reported that Marianne Cusato modified some architectural elements of her Katrina Cottages so that they would suit the South Main development in Buena Vista, Colorado. We have since learned that although the original...
The Long Beach, Mississippi, Board of Aldermen voted in September to institute a framework for rules under which the SmartCode would apply to the approximately 17,000-population municipality, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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People are willing to walk farther than is commonly believed, at least to reach rail transit, researchers at San Joseph State University say in a new report.
“Conventional wisdom among planners has been that pedestrians in the United States will...
A Romanian town with a famous castle hosts a charrette, and helps set a path for European architectural education.Prince Vlad the Impaler is thought to have visited a fortress that was begun in the 13th century in what is now the small Romanian town...