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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 Baltimore County Office of Community Conservation has chosen a consultant team led by Rick Hall of Hall Planning and Engineering in Tallahassee and Stuart Sirota of TND Planning Group in Baltimore to prepare a walkability master plan and form-...
Michael Mehaffy is working as a project consultant on development at Orenco Station and elsewhere after relocating from England to Lake Oswego, Oregon, near Portland. He remains a research associate with the Centre for Environmental Structure-Europe...
In the current housing downturn, smart growth appears to be performing better than large-lot suburban sprawl on the metropolitan fringe, according to a Reuters report in mid-February. From Washington, DC, to California, close-in suburbs are doing...
New York City is experimenting with two techniques designed to ward off terrorist attacks without draining the streets of their vitality.
Graph title: Sharing factor
What is the difference between New Urbanism and traditional, “old” urbanism? The answer has to do with one big systemic thing — the rise of suburbia — and with one ubiquitous technical thing — the response to suburbia’...
By the end of March, Georgetown Land Development Company expects to complete demolition at an old wire mill complex in Redding, Connecticut, making way for a transit-oriented development on the approximately 55-acre site. Company president Stephen...
Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners’ plan for an urban-style village adjoining Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, was featured in a Page One article in the Feb. 7 New York Times. The college is contributing 130 acres across from the main...
CNU’s Urban Laboratory sessions were a successful introduction of the Providence Congress. Giving participants an opportunity to work side-by-side with expert new urbanists on local challenges such as customizing a form-based code to the local...
Steve Maun of Leyland Alliance LLC and Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company led a week-long charrette in early February that produced a design for 30 acres of waterfront land in Newburgh, New York, a distressed Hudson River city of 28,...
n Albemarle Sound in North Carolina, a 1,600-acre development called Sandy Point, part of which will feature a “new urban waterfront,” is expected to break ground in the next few months. Eagerly awaited by county and state officials, the 930-acre...
The Texas A&M University System is negotiating to place a new campus for 25,000 students in the middle of a 2,000-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) that’s been planned for the South Side of San Antonio.
Morningside Village in Charlotte is the redevelopment of a 32-acre apartment complex — not a 32-unit complex as reported in January on page 17. The transit-oriented site near downtown is being developed by Firmitas, a subsidiary of the I’On Group.