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.
Glenwood Park, the 28-acre new urban infill development of former Internet pioneer Charles Brewer, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. The project will include 425 homes, shops, and offices. Parkside Partners recently...
Baldwin Park a large new urban project in Orlando, Florida, won a National 2004 Building With Trees Award of Excellence from the National Arbor Day Foundation for saving many large old trees despite the need to build on the sites where they stood....
Students for the New Urbanism at the University of Minnesota sponsored a panel discussion featuring Charles Bohl, director of the University of Miami’s Knight Program in Community Building and author of Place Making. The mid-April program was...
Dr. Arthur J. Naparstek, an urban redevelopment expert whose thinking helped generate the federal HOPE VI public housing rebuilding program, died April 24 in Cleveland, where he had been director of the Cleveland Foundation Commission on Poverty and...
Bill Dennis, director of the Albuquerque office of Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, is leaving the firm April 1 to start his own Albuquerque-based urban design consulting firm, B. Dennis Town & Building Design. Its website will...
Want images that show how communities can be designed for walking and bicycling? The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has teamed up with Walkable Communities Inc. and the Institute of Transportation Engineers...
CNU welcomes Payton Chung to its Chicago headquarters staff. Payton is the main contact for membership, order, and reference inquiries; he also coordinates technology and special projects for the office. Originally from North Carolina, Payton...
The Bixby Company announced that ground has broken on the Hercules Waterfront, a 21-acre mixed-use town center that will form the heart of a new urban town in Hercules, California. The initial phase will include 14 live/work houses, each three...
Madison, Wisconsin, has adopted an ordinance that requires developers of projects of 10 or more housing units to set aside 15 percent of the units for people who earn less than the Dane County median income. In exchange for providing the affordable...
The Northshore Town Center, described as a 141-acre new urban development near Knoxville, Tennessee, is slated to break ground soon. The James Doran Company is planning 120 detached houses, 450 apartments, 150 townhouses, shops, a 20-screen movie...
Westhaven, a new urban project in the very early stages of construction near Nashville, Tennessee, appears to have strong momentum, according to an article in the Tennessean newspaper. One hundred thirty homes were sold as of February in the 1,540-...
Surrey, British Columbia, has adopted a plan that requires small developers to cooperate in creating neighborhoods that are walkable, connected to transit, close to stores and services, and environmentally benign.
The city, working with Patrick...