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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.
Easton town Center's newest addition is Easton Gateway, a 54-acre district that adds more than 600,000 sq/ft of retail space to a master planned development that already includes more than 8 million square feet of high performing retail, office,...
Preliminary sketches/concepts through full construction drawing and also licensing of existing designs are displayed on the website. Residential design specializing in classical style exteriors with floor plans are designed for modern living. The...
Crossing Campo Street from downtown Las Cruces into the Mesquite Historic District is like crossing between two urban worlds that are often misunderstood.
A two-day conference in Corning, New York, will be presented by AIA Southern New York, the Preservation League of NYS, Corning’s Gaffer District, and the Market Street Restoration Agency.
Sixteen world-renowned architects and planners gathered to share their experiences working in the global arena.
The realization is growing that highways do not fit in an urban context and that solutions like at-grade boulevards can serve roughly the same number of cars while creating walkable, livable communities.
Smart Growth America reports on a new Senate bill, the Safe Streets Act of 2013:
There are so many factors that go in to making a city walkable. The factor that I find to be the most important, in pretty much all cases, is how safe the walkways are in terms of traffic.
Some of the traffic-control designs popularized in recent years undercut the comfort and well-being of pedestrians.
Easy steps can be taken to provide more vision and effectiveness for a municipal road map to the future.
Some of the engineering solutions aimed at achieving “complete streets” fall short of their goal, say the authors of an authoritative new book. It would be better to focus on enclosure, architecture, overall width, and trees, they say.
The Westwood Coalition hopes that Cincinnati’s Form-Based Code will help to revitalize the neighborhood’s historic business district. On Dec. 13, the Cincinnati Planning Commission unanimously approved a recommendation to adopt the city’s FBC in a...