Archives
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.
Norquist spearheaded campaigns for highway removal, federal reform of housing policy and walkable communities.
Last month, the Federal Highways Administration released a memorandum officially endorsing CNU/ITE’s manual Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach.
Since 2008, CNU has showcased innovative academic papers at the annual Congress. Submissions are now being accepted for academic papers representing this year’s selected topics.
Jury chair Jeff Speck revealed an impressive list of urbanists that have agreed to judge the 2014 CNU Charter Awards, the global award for excellence in urban design.
An impressive new web-based calculator of housing and transportation costs puts another nail in the coffin of the "drive-'til-you-qualify" mentality of house shopping.
Since it’s launch in 1993, Prince Charles’s Poundbury development in Dorcester, England, has set the standard as a high-quality, successful new town designed according to New Urbanism.
Phoenix pins its hopes on transit-oriented development along the light rail line.
Complementing the "walkable" with a more purposeful focus on places where people feel comfortable sitting would lead to a more holistic and enhanced understanding of place.
If the poster-child city for suburban sprawl is fertile ground for mixed-use, compact development, then the trend must be strong.
If anyone is under the impression that young adults’ preference for urban, multimodal living is a passing fad, they need to think again.
Philadelphia is setting up a citywide land bank that could become a model for other big cities, The New York Times reports. The city has 40,000 vacant or abandoned properties, the result of foreclosures, tax delinquencies, deindustrialization, and...