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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 Grand Valley Metro Council in Grand Rapids, Michigan, won the “best project” award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers Transportation Planning Council for a study that promotes form-based codes among governments in the Grand Rapids...
In downtown Cedar Key, Florida, a development will create a new block of mixed-use buildings plus the restoration of adjacent historic buildings dating to the 1860s. The $25 million project is under construction and expected to be complete in late...
The University of Miami’s Knight Fellows in Community Building will conduct a charrette in Memphis July 17-22 aimed at helping revitalize a section of the Tennessee city that historically was known as Winchester Park and currently is called Intown....
An economic impact analysis of the Curtis Park HOPE VI project in Denver by the Leland Consulting Group illustrate a success story. Among the findings:• Crime was down 17 percent (it rose 7 percent in comparable neighborhoods).
“New Urbanism is Blooming” is the theme of the Summer 2006 issue of On Common Ground, a magazine published twice
Photo caption #1: A Charter Awards certificate for the creation of new traditional residential villages at Fort Belvoir, Virginia (including the first village: Herryford Village) will be hanging in the Pentagon, said Ivan Bolden, an assistant for...
Steve Mouzon has stepped down from PlaceMakers to devote all his energy to the growth of the New Urban Guild, which focuses on architectural charrettes, “manufactured architecture,” and tools for the making of traditional towns and buildings. One...
The national attention, and associated criticism, generated by work in the Gulf Coast region was one of many issues raised at the June Congress for the New Urbanism in Providence, Rhode Island. Other topics included certification of projects,...
The kayaking young developers Katie Selby and her brother Jed Selby expect the first building permits for their South Main mixed-use neighborhood in Buena Vista, Colorado, to be issued by the beginning of July. The 40-acre project along the Arkansas...
Every component of urbanism possesses both technical and social dimensions. While there are always good reasons for a traditional component or relationship of components to assume a standard form, there are also times when some widespread alteration...
A groundbreaking was held in May for the $350 million Pleasant Hill BART transit village in Contra Costa County, California. Lennertz Coyle & Associates (now HDR Town Planning of San Francisco, California) designed the project nearly five years...
The Village of Kennedyville in Kent County, Maryland — one of the first attempts to expand a historic hamlet into a village using traditional neighborhood design — broke ground this spring. Developer Carl Wright contracted with Ryan Homes to build...