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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.
Montgomery, Alabama, which recently adopted the SmartCode, has now hired Dover, Kohl & Partners of South Miami, Florida, to create a downtown redevelopment plan. Dover Kohl will be paid up to $310,000 out of the general fund, according to a...
In the mountain states, where urban neighborhoods are oases in a landscape of wide-open spaces, “traveling eight hours for a meeting is par for the course,” says Katie Selby, codeveloper of South Main in Buena Vista, CO. So she wasn’t surprised to...
Tom Borrup, a Minneapolis-based consultant in nonprofit management, community development, and philanthropy, has written The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture. The 224-page...
Milt Rhodes has moved from Miami, Florida, to Raleigh, in his native North Carolina, where he is working part time on projects for Dover, Kohl & Partners, where he previously was employed. Rhodes, who has degrees in architecture, urban planning...
After coordinating more than 85 charrettes for Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. in the past several years, Debra Hempel has joined the architectural, engineering, and consulting firm HDR. From an office in Tampa, Hempel will coordinate HDR’s design...
The Arnold Fund builds new urbanist projects in Georgia and eyes the ‘Katrina Cottage’ model.The Arnold Fund builds new urbanist projects in Georgia and eyes the ‘Katrina Cottage’ model.The Arnold Fund is taking the lead in developing two sizable...
The Peerless Development Group has begun converting a 40 percent vacant shopping mall in Forest Acres, South Carolina, into the core of a development that may eventually contain a network of streets and sidewalks, street-oriented retail, a restored...
Dan Camp was elected mayor of Starkville, Mississippi, a college town with 22,000 people, in June of 2005. In the last year, Camp has made progress fulfilling a campaign promise to keep the police station and city courthouse downtown. Camp ran for...
Shaker Heights, Ohio, is considering an offer by developer Robert Stark to redevelop a sprawling intersection with two strip malls into a town center. A plan for the intersection of Warrensville Center Road and Van Aken Boulevard was created by...
Gulfport, Mississippi, Mayor Brent Warr, who energetically participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum last October and who has supported new urbanist approaches to redevelopment, received an Urban Leadership Award from the Penn Institute for...
Edited by Jean ScottCNU Florida Chapter, 2005, 172 pp., paperback $21.n the Sunshine State, where the seeds of New Urbanism were first planted, a slew of developments and communities designed on new urban principles has grown up during the past few...
The Poland Public Library in Poland, Ohio, designed by Robert A. Mastriana of the 4M Company (see Sept. 2004 New Urban News), is one of 80 libraries in the US and Canada that will be featured in Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love. The $49...