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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.
After seven years of planning and nine months of site preparation, homes are slated to be under construction in Norton Commons in October. The 600-acre new town near Louisville, Kentucky, will eventually have 2,880 houses and 560,000 square feet or...
Dane County developed its model ordinance by researching codes approved in cities like Columbus, Ohio, and Austin, Texas, says county planner Steve Steinhoff. Elements of these codes were combined into an ordinance and refined by a multimunicipal...
A comprehensive list of research on new urbanist topics reveals some constructive studies — and the need for more.
At the first new urbanist Council in 2001, CNU cofounder Stefanos Polyzoides told the group that the new urbanist movement needed...
David Walters and Linda Luise Brown Architectural Press, 2004, 277 pp., paperback $44.95 Urban designers have benefited greatly from publications that have become available over the past few years. Some books are practical manuals that remain...
Salinas, California, where novelist and short-story writer John Steinbeck was born, is trying to encourage new urbanist forms of development in an eight-block section of downtown and in “future growth areas” that until now have remained largely...
Leading figures in the Congress for the New Urbanism are trying to overcome a simmering conflict with advocates of the disabled. For more than two years, groups such as the Disability Rights Action Coalition for Housing (DRACH) have complained that...
Producer Kyle Justice has put together a 22-minute promotional video/DVD for the new town of Seabrook in Pacific Beach, Washington. The high-quality video includes footage of TNDs and interviews with developer Casey Roloff, designer Laurence Qamar,...
One of the first attempts to convert a historic hamlet into a village with the help of a new urban plan is moving forward in Kent County, Maryland. Developer Carl Wright attended a wedding in Kentlands, the noted new urban development in...
A development that is expected to more than double the size of the center of Woodstock, Georgia, has been proposed by Hedgewood Properties — a home builder. Hedgewood, which is building the traditional neighborhood development Vickery near Atlanta,...
Fifteen years after the initial design, the proposed town of Haymount in Caroline County, Virginia, is financed and moving forward with construction, says developer John Clark. Clark and his partner, Edward J. Miller, closed on a $14 million, five-...
CNU members should watch their mailboxes for issue eight of Zoning Practice of the American Planning Association, provided as a CNU membership benefit. Produced in cooperation with CNU, this issue focuses on creating and modifying zoning codes to...
By Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson Island Press, 2004, 338 pp., hardcover $60, paperback $30