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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.
Collaborating with a landowner, the City of Azusa attracted national firms to design a a transit-oriented community on one of the largest undeveloped infill sites in the Los Angeles region.
In a region where the Playa Vista
project in Los...
Sales in 14 selected new urban pro-jects cooled off by 4.5 percent in 2001, after they rose 34 percent in 2000.
After a year characterized by tur-
moil, uncertainty, and low interest rates, the picture emerging from New Urban News’ annual...
Architect Dhiru Thadani heads the new Town Planning Studio at the Washington office of Ayers Saint Gross. The firm specializes in university campus planning and architecture, and the new studio will focus on urban college town and research park...
If foundations that support the philosophy behind New Urbanism invested their endowments in these projects, they might provide an major source of capital for new urbanist projects.
Financing is a persistent frustration for developers of new...
Harrison Rue has been named executive director of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization in Virginia. Rue was working on new urban planning issues in Hawaii for several years, and was formerly the director of the Citizen...
New membership rates! Renewing members, take note — CNU’s membership rates have changed. Our individual membership is now $175. We have added an organizational membership rate, in which three people at a firm, agency, or other organization can join...
A change in political leadership may mean a delay in the plans for a new urban extension of Port Wentworth, Georgia (see October/November 2000 New Urban News). Principal Planner Denise Grabowski says the newly elected mayor has expressed...
The City of Baltimore, Maryland, is moving forward with its plans to revitalize a 100-block area north of Johns Hopkins University. A biotechnology district, which could contain up to 4,000 jobs, would be surrounded by 1,000 units of new and...
Acting on the recommendations of the Smart Growth Taskforce he formed last year, Kentucky Governor Paul Patton (D) has announced a package of legislation to promote orderly growth statewide. The legislation does not attempt to mandate zoning in the...
Discussions of the connections between New Urbanism and the environment, and the relationships between new urbanists and environmentalists, are occurring with increasing frequency. At this past summer's Congress for the New Urbanism, on various...
New governor reverses course — fires planners one week, implements new cabinet-level program the next.
Newly elected New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey laid off virtually the entire staff of the Office of State Planning as part of a larger cost-...
• Purpose: to allow the optional development and redevelopment of land consistent with TND principles
• The ordinance is a guide and is not intended to be adopted as is.
• Asks communities to analyze local, historic development patterns to provide...