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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.
California State Treasurer Philip Angelides, who developed Laguna West, a dozen miles south of downtown Sacramento, won the Democratic nomination for governor
Earlier this year EPA released a series of long-awaited publications on water resources and development patterns (see the March 2006 New Urban News). A review of one of those publications, Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density Development,...
Bob Regan, author of The Steps of Pittsburgh (reviewed in the June 2004 New Urban News), has written a companion book, The Bridges of Pittsburgh, published by The Local History Company in Pittsburgh. Like the earlier volume, the new 182-page...
After 10 years as planning director for the City of Fort Pierce, Florida, Ramon Trias has formed Trias & Associates, a firm specializing in town planning and urban design. Based in Fort Pierce, Trias & Associates is working with national...
Steve Schukraft, who led the new urbanist team in Moss Point, Mississippi, beginning with the Mississippi Renewal Forum last October, has left HOK Planning Group in Washington, DC, to direct the Planning & Urban Design Studio of HDR in Tampa,...
Despite their country’s colder climate, Canadians are three times as likely as Americans to hop on a bicycle to go to work. Even in the frigid Yukon Territory, more than twice the percentage of the population can be seen biking to work as in...
New urban development must make case at state high court.I’On, a lauded traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, faces continued opposition from town officials. The latest hurdle for the 243-acre, 759-unit...
The City of Miami, Florida, is working with Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ) of Miami on a complete overhaul of its zoning code. The new code will be a modified version of the SmartCode. The city’s effort is called Miami 21. In a parallel effort, the city...
For workers driving to their jobs, Atlanta is America’s most expensive metropolitan area, at least as measured by the cost of gasoline, says a study by Sperling’s Best Places. Because of long distances between home and work and the region’s serious...
Roughly 90 percent of Oregon’s 241 cities have changed their laws to limit cul-de-sacs, The Wall Street Journal reported June 2. In an article on efforts throughout the US to discourage cul-de-sacs, the Journal said “some traffic experts say the...
Katrina Cottages by Marianne Cusato and others get eight pages of text and photos in the July/August issue of Cottage Living magazine. The diminutive dwellings are presented as “the first step for long-term housing to replace the approximately 99,...
Discussion at CNU XIV’s closing session affirms membership’s respect for the Charter
After a one-year hiatus, the subject of supplementing the Charter of the New Urbanism was back on the program at the Congress in Providence.