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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.
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Partnerships are key to advancing the urban placemaking agenda, says Lynn Richards, who will take over as President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism on July 1.
A book by By F. Kaid Benfield, Island Press, 2014, 304 pp., $25 paperback or e-book
The administrative change to follow recent successful FHA standards, according to CNU president John Norquist.
Last month, Washington DC Planning Director Harriet Tregoning announced that she’d be leaving her position after 6 years to become the director of HUD’s Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities.
Initial attempts at making city streets more encouraging to cyclists have often been marred by poor design.
Londonderry, New Hampshire, could be a model for New England suburbs to organize growth at the metropolitan edge.
LiveWorkLearnPlay (LWLP) is an international real estate advisory and development firm, dedicated to creating and redeveloping iconic mixed-use environments.
Before a the market grew for urban places and the housing crash cut conventional sprawl down to size, the New Urbanism was propelled forward mostly by “champions.”
This video from urbanists Dover, Kohl & Partners offers instructions on the transformation of an inner suburb that was languishing.
Held Feb. 13 at the newly-minted Perez Art Museum Miami, one of the latest developments in the movement to revitalize downtown and its surrounding areas, the conference, hosted by the UM School of Business and School of Architecture, brought...
In late January, Dan Parolek and John Miki traveled to Austin, TX, to kick off community character documentation. This new documentation process dubbed “Community Character in a Box” builds upon past efforts used by the city, but offers a new take...