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.
Author-architect honored for uniting classicism and urbanism.
Leon Krier, the influential polemicist and innovative architect who laid theoretical groundwork for New Urbanism, was awarded the first annual Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical...
Here are some of the assertions made in the Preserving the American Dream conference, and their implications for New Urbanism:
Transportation depends on private motor vehicles, not mass transit. Andres Duany presented an American Automobile...
With registration open for the eleventh Congress, The Evolving City: From Ideals to Reality, CNU staff are working overtime to pack this year’s event with new perspectives and to make use of member expertise. The Congress promises to keep the...
Just 30 minutes outside of Nashville, the tiny village of Pleasant View was experiencing growing pains. Wanting to encourage expansion while effectively managing growth, it has become an example of expediting new urban projects through...
Though built on a slag heap 25 stories high, houses in a 710- unit new urban development called Summerset at Frick Park are selling well to people in Pittsburgh. Detached dwellings fetch $200,000 to $700,000 on the 238-acre hill where 20 million...
The Next American City, a quarterly journal, makes its debut this spring with an issue devoted about half to smart growth — what it is, why building “smart” is hard, whether downtown Los Angeles is a model of multi-centered growth — and about half...
After six years of outstanding service, Poticha moves on.
The Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Ur-
banism announced March 5 that Shelley Poticha, the organization’s Executive Director since 1997, will be resigning as of July 1,...
At the beginning of March, CNU’s new executive committee took office. Until 2005, the organization is led by Chair John Norquist, Vice-Chair Hank Dittmar, & Treasurer Jacky Grimshaw. All three are long-time members of the CNU’s board of...
The City of Philadelphia has signed with Liberty Property Trust to revive the Philadelphia Navy Base over the next two decades, and it looks like the plan is highly influenced by the principles of New Urbanism.
Liberty first unveiled a 70-acre...
America’s newly minted Smart Growth Leadership Institute says that to make smart growth the status quo, “You have to set a framework in which it is financially better to invest in existing communities than it is ‘out there,’ adding to the sprawl...
New Urbanism’s first champion at HUD discusses his philosophy and strategy as a private-sector developer of housing in cities.
With the Bush Administration proposing to end new funding of the HOPE VI redevelopment program after the current fiscal...
While most US governors are fixated on fixing fiscal woes, a select few, like New Jersey’s James McGreevey (see March 2003 New Urban News), have managed to focus on smart growth:
Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Michigan). This freshman governor announced...