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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 Technical Page by Andres Duany, Michael Morrissey, and Patrick Pinnell — which normally appears just prior to the book reviews — will not be published in this issue but is scheduled to resume in the July-August 2007 issue.
The first 1,500 acres of a 55,000-acre new urban development was planned near Albuquerque, New Mexico, in April. The developer, SunCal Companies of Irvine, California, is attempting its first traditional neighborhood development, one of the largest...
More than 20,000 bicycles are to be made available at 1,450 rental stations in Paris by year’s end. A company called Cyclocity is working with the city to establish the bike rental system, The Washington Post reported March 24. Renters will pay a...
A plan for Sandywoods Farm, an affordable community for artists in Tiverton, Rhode Island, received an award from CNU New England during the chapter’s annual conference, held at the end of March in Lowell, Massachusetts. Donald Powers Architects of...
The Miami Planning Advisory Board approved Miami 21, a comprehensive plan to guide development along with a new zoning code based on the SmartCode. The City Commission is scheduled to vote on Miami 21 in June. “An approval of the Miami 21 plan means...
Dan Parolek and Karen Parolek, principals in Opticos Design in Berkeley, California, are co-authoring a book on form-based codes with Paul Crawford of Crawford Multari & Clark in San Luis Obispo. Wiley Press is to publish it in spring 2008....
Terra Land Group, which produced the Town Commons traditional neighborhood development in Howell, Michigan, is now turning to inexpensive live-work units as a way of coping with the current housing market — sluggish in much of the nation and...
New urbanists will have to work on a smaller scale and abandon greenfield projects in the future, author James Howard Kunstler predicted in a speech to the Congress for the New Urbanism in Philadelphia in mid-May.
Kunstler, who is popular among...
The NEA has awarded funding to the National Charrette Institute (NCI) for the production and distribution of an educational DVD video on charrettes. The list of matching funders includes the National Association of Realtors. The DVD will contain two...
Starting prices at New Daleville have slipped a few thousand dollars further — to $269,990 — in the seven months since Last Harvest was written. “Instead of selling five houses a month, which I had hoped, they’re selling 2 a month,” Joe Duckworth...
Highlands Garden Village, a new urban infill development in Denver, Colorado, won the Urban Land Institute’s Award for Excellence: The America Competition. The 27-acre Highlands Garden Village was developed by Perry Rose LLC and was planned by...
Peter Swift, director of town planning for Mid Atlantic Global LLC in Erbil, Iraq, is working on a three-square-mile new town plan for Dohuk in northern Iraq and on infill in the Ankawa Quarter of Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government...