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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.
CNU’s newly formed Visitability & Accessibility Task Force will focus on raising awareness among new urbanists about the importance of visitability and accessibility and raising awareness among accessibility advocates of the benefits of...
Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon are authors of a new book, Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities, that discusses how to plan, protect, and manage natural and restored lands, including those along greenways. The 300-page, $...
The Congress for the New Urbanism is creating an affordability task force to be co-chaired by Emily Talen, associate professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois, and Neal Payton, principal at Torti Gallas & Partners in...
magine driving into Memphis and finding a medical district whose skyline consists of one romantic tower after another — Tennessee’s response to the medieval Italian town. Imagine walking the streets of the medical district and finding them not bleak...
An elegant $75 million mixed-use development designed principally by New Haven architect Robert Orr has been tucked into a difficult 4.74-acre site in the Southport section of Fairfield, Connecticut. Houses in Federal, Italianate, and Greek Revival...
Doris Goldstein thinks the time has come for new urbanists to consider forming a national organization that “would educate communities about new urbanist principles, provide support and information about community governance, and offer cultural...
Plan title: Parking Lot Guidelines
“Planners cannot significantly improve the design of cities without reforming local parking requirements to emphasize quality over quantity,” Vinit Mukhija and Donald Shoup declare in the Summer 2006 issue of...
By the National Charrette Institute, principal authors Bill Lennertz and Aarin LutzenhiserAmerican Planning Association, 2006, 208 pp., paperback $39.95.For the last two decades at least, new urbanists have been conducting charrettes to create...
“Agriculture is the new golf,” observes Andres Duany.An organic farm has been created at New Town at St. Charles, Missouri, a large traditional neighborhood development outside St. Louis. Developer Whittaker Builders is conducting a nationwide...
Towne Center at Haddon is the first project in New Jersey to win recognition from the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance as a smart-growth undertaking. Fieldstone Associates of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is proposing to develop 25,000 square feet...
Public officials in Miramar, Florida, recently approved the privately developed portion of the city’s town center. The suburban city bought the 54-acre site for $7.8 million, according to assistant city manager Wazir Ishmael, and hired Torti Gallas...
Alameda, County, California, which encompasses most of East San Francisco Bay, including Oakland, has adopted a “pedestrian master plan” aimed at making streets and sidewalks in unincorporated areas of the 1,444,000-population county safer and more...