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.
Torti Gallas and Partners/CHK, of Silver Spring, MD, is working with the military’s housing privatization program and creating award-winning TNDs such as the Naval Training Center in San Diego, CA.
Named the 2002 “Niche Market Project of the Year...
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...
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...
Avalon Associates, developer of Avalon Park in East Orlando, FL, has recently agreed to acquire a 3,000-acre business park just east of Orlando International Airport.
Currently zoned for 20 million square feet of high-tech commercial and industrial...
Habersham’s town center is beginning to take shape with the completion of its first live/work building and groundbreakings for four more units scheduled in two months. Waiting until the neighborhood just outside of Beaufort, SC, reached critical...
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...
After many years of development, the SmartCode finally has arrived (see December 2002 New Urban News). The SmartCode is the culmination of years of work by leading new urbanists Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), and its release has been...
Boston architect and urban designer David Dixon, a principal in the Boston architecture, planning and preservation firm of Goody, Clancy & Associates, has been elected the 68th president of the Boston Society of Architects, the nation’s largest...