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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.
Three-fourths of Americans believe that being smarter about development and improving public transportation are better long-term solutions for reducing traffic congestion than building new roads, according to a survey sponsored by the National...
James Howard Kunstler appears throughout “Radiant City,” a recently released film that that The New York Times described as “an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.” Reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz said the...
Ellen Greenberg has a one-year appointment as visiting practitioner at the University of California-Davis Sustainable Transportation Center. She left Freedman Tung & Bottomley in Berkeley, but remains involved in planning for Ventura, California...
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...
The Rosa Parks School in the New Columbia HOPE VI development in Portland, Oregon, has won this year’s Richard Riley Award for Schools as Centers of Community.
A series of similar studies in recent years have compared traditional neighborhood development (TND) to conventional suburban development (CSD) and found that higher density, a mixture of uses, and better connectivity reduce vehicle miles traveled (...
The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency approved a final contract proposal in late September for a consortium that plans to build more than 530 Louisiana Cottages and “Carpet Cottages” in locations devastated by the hurricanes of 2005. The New Orleans...
The National Charrette Institute is offering toolkits in CD-ROM format based on the NCI Charrette Planner and the NCI Complete Charrette Manager trainings. These kits contain the complete set of electronic forms and checklists, providing a step-by-...
Publication Title: New Urban News; Publication Number: 1096-1844; Filing Date: October 1, 2007; Issue Frequency: eight issues/year (every 6.5 weeks); Number of Issues Published Annually: eight; Annual Subscription Price: $89; Complete Mailing...
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...
By Christopher B. LeinbergerIsland Press, 2007, 224 pp., $25.95 hardcover.
Charles Bohl and the Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami are running a series of workshops in Lexington, Kentucky, to help local leaders make decisions about “legacy projects” that will be created for the 2010 World...