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.
Attorneys Doris Goldstein of Jacksonville and Dan Slone of Richmond — with David B. Wolfe, an old hand at community association management — are involved in a new initiative aimed at improving the workings of homeowners’ associations (HOAs). “Most...
Sales at Baldwin Park in Orlando, Florida, have continued at a torrid pace. Absorption has averaged 700 units per year, according to a report in Land Development magazine. The project, which began sales in 2002 and opened model homes in April of...
Can Hagerstown and other cities just beyond the sprawl of the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area be strengthened through renovation of their centers and by compact new development? That’s the question that drives Alan Feinberg and Nick Pittas....
James Urban, principal of Urban Trees & Soils in Annapolis, has compiled 10 strategies, of three different kinds, for successful development of trees in cities.
Due to a disagreement over equity financing levels, the City of Lenexa, Kansas, broke off its three-year partnership with the Haile Group, a new urbanist developer based in Gainesville, Florida. The Haile Group drew up plans for, and was planning to...
Publisher Diane Dorney has changed the name of The Town Paper to New Towns and has added critiques of new urban neighborhoods, written by Laurence Aurbach. Aurbach devised a rating system based on 11 factors: housing diversity, mixed uses,...
Gooding’s corner grocery store in Celebration, Florida, closed, as many residents feared, when a new, larger Gooding’s opened near the highway. However, a new market/bakery is scheduled to open in the same 5,000 sq. ft. space in January 2005,...
Opponents lost their bid to prevent a Wal-Mart Supercenter from being built as part of a HOPE VI public housing redevelopment project in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans (see July/August 2003 New Urban News). The Wal-Mart is now operating on...
Nine new chapter organizing committees have joined ranks with CNU’s four existing chapters. These chapters-in-the-making welcome your participation.
Steve Oubre of Architects Southwest reports that a half dozen traditional neighborhood developments have recently been approved and/or begun construction in Louisiana. Watch for more coverage of these projects, designed by Oubre, based in Lafayette...
MLP Investments and Christner Inc. architects won an AIA Merit Award in urban design for their Hanley Station project in St. Louis, Missouri. The 8-acre, transit-oriented development with 150 apartments and 55,000 square feet of retail will begin...
Cleveland and its suburbs are getting a slew of projects that range from retail “lifestyle centers” — generally set apart from their surroundings and lacking housing — to mixed-use new urban developments. The latest project, unveiled in December,...