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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.
Transportation buffs: read and write, help CNU! Suzahna Poliwka is coordinating CNU’s literature review of materials relevant to context-sensitive design of major streets. (See the article at left for more about this project.) She needs reviewers to...
Saratoga Springs, New York, used its new Transect-based zoning to get a developer to devise a more urban, pedestrian-oriented character for a hotel, retail, office, and residential complex that will be built on Marion Avenue northeast of downtown....
How to revitalize 80 acres in the center of Coatesville, an 8,000-population southeast Pennsylvania steel town that has fallen on hard times, will be the focus of an Oct. 21-27 charrette conducted by Fellows in the Knight Program in Community...
Ferchill Group of Cleveland and Wispark LLC of Milwaukee have teamed up to buy the historic, long- empty Pabst Brewery complex west of downtown Milwaukee and convert it into “Pabst City,” a seven-block complex that will contain 450,000 square feet...
Once the garage placement on the lot has been settled, and the spaces immediately around the garage have been studied for their social and technical performance, it remains to design the garage itself. Two aspects are discussed here. Some are...
The first traditional neighborhood development in Iowa — the Peninsula Neighborhood in Iowa City — is off to a good start in terms of sales and aesthetics, but costs have been a problem. Three months after the grand opening, more than half of the 81...
It’s the season for state meetings of the American Planning Association and American Institute of Architects. If you will be speaking at or attending one of these state meetings, and would like to publicize CNU, please contact Sandrine Milanello (...
In late July, the federal government agreed to fund the development of a context-sensitive design guidebook for major streets. The project, funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — brings...
Continuum Lakewood Development Company (CLDC) has announced details of the first phase of Belmar, a $500 million public/private project that will transform a 104-acre former mall site into a traditional mixed-use downtown for the suburban Denver...
The July/August 2003 issue, on page 19, incorrectly described the Community of Christ as Mormon. The church — the owner of land in Independence, Missouri, that is slated for development as a new urban community — had its historical origins in the...
For 17 years, developer Buff Chace has planned to build residential neighborhoods on the edges of his Mashpee Commons shoppin g center on Cape Cod. And for most of those years, municipal or county regulations and conventional zoning have stood in...
Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s nominee to head the US Environmental Protection Agency, has earned a reputation in the Beehive State as a forceful proponent of “quality growth,” but some observers fault him for not having made...