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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.
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-...
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,...
When Walgreens anticipated it would have a hard time gaining permission to build a drugstore at the main intersection in Poland, Ohio, the company sought advice from a longtime local resident, Robert A. Mastriana. Mastriana, an architect and a...
“There’s a lot of new urbanist development going on in
South Florida,” says Thomas Jeffrey, chief financial officer of American Ventures Realty Investors, which manages the new South Florida Urban Initiatives Fund. “We’re got probably close to...
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• Retain pedestrian access, requiring
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• Integrate security design and urban design
• Incorporate streetscape elements, such as trees and light fixtures, only as non- structural components of the...
Brian Wright recently moved on from Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company to become the director of town planning and urban design at the Southern Land Company. u
Three Chicago area organizations — the Campaign for Sensible Growth, the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, and the Metropolitan Planning Council — have produced a 66-page workbook, Sensible Tools for Healthy Communities: A Decision-Making Workbook for...
Construction is under way on the first 230 houses in Costa Pacific Communities’ large Villebois project in Wilsonville, Oregon (see Sept. 2003 New Urban News). In August the company sold 39 acres to West Hills Development; the land constitutes the...