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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.
David Fleeman, a partner in development of Haile Plantation in Gainesville, Florida, died November 8 in Miami. He was 88. Fleeman was already semi-retired from a successful career as a homebuilder in South Florida and was serving as chairman of the...
This survey identifies site-specific projects — either in planning, in construction, or completed — that are at least 15 acres and are based on principles of New Urbanism. The projects are mixed-use, laid out with an interconnected network of...
McGreevey wants to build more transit villages and fewer roads.
With Parris Glendening’s tenure as governor of Maryland about to end, it appears that leadership in the campaign for “smart growth” is now being claimed by New Jersey Gov. James E....
A two-year search for financing recently paid off for Terry Stamper, developer of the Peninsula Neighborhood in Iowa City.Stamper and his partners received a $2.25 million loan from a Kansas bank to move forward with the first phase. The lender,...
The Town of Brookhaven on New York’s Long Island imposed a six-month moratorium on development in an unattractive strip commercial stretch of the Montauk Highway. The moratorium is allowing time for Colorado-based consultant Peter Swift to draw up a...
At its meeting during the last weekend of September, CNU’s Board of Directors made important decisions. It moved forward with chapters (see page 21). In addition:
• Stephanie Bothwell was unanimously appointed to the board. A landscape architect,...
Urban design strategies for a neighborhood in San Jose, California, soon to be served by light-rail transit were the focus of a charrette conducted Nov. 13-18 by the University of Miami’s Knight Program in Community Building. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk...
Architect Witold Rybczynski, editor of the Wharton Real Estate Review, has written one of the best financial analyses to date of new urban communities. “The Art of the New Urbanist Deal,” in the fall issue of the Review, examines four new urban...
Large-scale new urban community is planned for brownfield site.
Sunrise, the first major new urban project planned in the wake of Envision Utah, is slated to break ground in 2003. The project is on 4,300 acres of former mining land within a new...
Philip Langdon, associate editor of New Urban News, is editor, with the late Jonathan King, of a new book, The CRS Team and the Business of Architecture (Texas A&M University Press, $39.95). The 325-page book alternates relatively brief...
Many players in New Urbanism headed for New Mexico recently, yet their agendas are mostly national, not local.
There’s a distinct Southwestern flavor to this issue. Philip Langdon reports on the remarkable revitalization of downtown Albuquerque,...
Santa Fe Council tries to organize efforts toward zoning reform.
Before New Year’s Day, the SmartCode developed by Duany Plater- Zyberk & Company will make its long-awaited debut.
“We intend to start printing it before the end of the year,”...