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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.
Gulfport, Mississippi — a city with a new urban plan for redevelopment to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina — is moving to hire Memphis developer Henry Turley “as the city’s design consultant to guide citywide rebuilding in an effort...
Lenexa City Center, a 203-acre new urban center of a suburban community near Kansas City in Kansas, is making tremendous progress — despite the slowdown in the real estate market. Building permits have been issued for two mixed-use buildings...
The transportation and land-use policies of Portland, Oregon, offer residents a “green dividend” of lower commute times and costs, according to Joe Cortright, an economist with Impresa Inc. and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Average...
After years of deliberations among representatives of CNU, the United States Green Building Council and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the LEED for Neighborhood Pilot has enrolled 238 projects – one of the strongest launches in the nearly 10...
William Lieberman has become program manager in the Transportation Program Division of Carter & Burgess, a national consulting firm in engineering, architecture, and related services. He is based in Oakland, California. Previously Lieberman was...
Boyle Investment Company hopes to break ground by early this month on Berry Farms, a partly new urbanist project in Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville. The mixed-use development, a significant step forward for the 58,000-population Williamson...
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LeylandAlliance is teaming with Habitat for Humanity to develop several parcels of land in the downtown historic district of Newburgh, New York, and reconfigure them into affordable housing. The new urbanist firm is the master developer of the...
The Movement for Israeli Urbanism (MIU), Israel’s version of CNU, is sponsoring a charrette December 2-6 to replan a border town severely effected by the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. “We invite you to take part in changing urban planning...
The City of San Gabriel, California, adopted a plan aimed at transforming Valley Boulevard — the community’s major transportation corridor — and the adjacent residential neighborhoods into a vibrant mixed-use area. The Valley Vision Plan calls for...
Douglas Duany is working for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment and is living in Poundbury, the town in southwest England being developed by Prince Charles. His responsibilities include teaching the Foundation’s urban designers who...
After a clash over architectural styles, an eco-urban neighborhood is developing fast. Vancouver, British Columbia, is rushing to build an eight-block project on the edge of downtown that will serve both as housing for athletes in the 2010 Winter...