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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.
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.
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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,...
Rockville Town Square, a 12.5-acre development that has been designed to become the centerpiece of Rockville, Maryland, welcomed its first residents in February. Developer RD Rockville LLC has constructed 644 one-, two-, and three-bedroom units,...
Report suggests policies that would make it more expensive for households to add extra vehicles. Many people in metropolitan Atlanta would like to live in walkable neighborhoods, but not enough such neighborhoods are being built, says a...
To meet a pressing need for inexpensive classroom space, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system in North Carolina is going to experiment with a schoolhouse prototype based on Katrina Cottages. A group at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, led by...
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.
A seven-day charrette aimed at planning a new downtown district for Sunland Park, New Mexico, has been tentatively scheduled for the week of March 5th by Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, which won a contract from the 14,250-person...