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.
cleaned-up brownfield site in Moncton, New Brunswick, is expected to become a 53-acre collection of more than 900 apartments, condominium units, detached houses, duplexes, and rowhouses in a setting offering what its planners describe as a “...
Between 1982 and 1997, developed land in the Portland, Maine, region grew by 108 percent while the population grew by just 17 percent. A 150-acre parcel in Scarborough, just south of Portland, is zoned for just 65 single houses — a number which is...
Eleven new urbanists in the Washington, DC, area, led by Lee Sobel of the US Environmental Protection Agency with assistance from Dhiru Thadani of Ayers/Saint/Gross, gathered in late August for a discussion of whether to form a local organization —...
Save the date for CNU XII, the Twelfth Congress for the New Urbanism, to be held at the historic Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, June 24-27, 2004.
Preparations for CNU’s 2004 Charter Awards program are underway. Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be this year’s jury chair. Watch for announcements in the mail in late November...
The Community Action Network, a citizens group in East Greenbush, New York, has been vigorously advocating adoption of a new urban master plan that would calm traffic on the Columbia Turnpike (Route 9 and 20) southeast of Albany.
Neopolis Development LLC in Jackson, Mississippi, is planning to build a 260-acre traditional neighborhood development with a name no one is likely to forget: the Town of Lost Rabbit. In late July Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.
After sponsoring a program to identify and honor the nation’s best HOPE VI public housing redevelopment projects, the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) declined to publicize the awards, which were administered by the Congress...
The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, headed by Benjamin Starrett, has spun off from the Collins Center for Public Policy. The newly independent 501(c)3 organization is based in Coral Gables, Florida, and has a website at...
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CNU’s Task Forces are getting an infusion of new energy, ideas, and leadership. Paul Crawford joins Rick Bernhardt as co-chair of the Planners Task Force. Former Transportation Task Force chair G.B. Arrington is now serving as the chair of the Task...
The Village at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a new urban community with a lot of promise, is going through “restructuring” after one of the development partners died, according to codeveloper John Hawley. As a result, the project has slowed...