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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.
Innovative regional programs in Georgia and California use DOT funds to leverage new urbanist planning and development.
In the Atlanta region, $350 million is slated to be spent on transportation improvements linked to smart growth projects in...
Jackie Benson of TND Planning and Marketing in Atlanta has opened an office in Rosemary Beach, Florida. She works as a consultant to TND developers and builders on marketing, sales, and builder programs.
Charles Brewer, the founder and former CEO of internet service provider Mindspring Enterprises, has started Green Street Properties, an Atlanta-based development company that will focus on new urbanist infill projects. Brewer’s partners are...
Ground has broken on the Downtown/Fairgrounds Redevelopment in Tupelo, Mississippi. The project, under development by Henry Turley, the Harbor Town developer, extends the city’s downtown street grid. This project packs a lot into a small space: a...
Longleaf, a TND in New Port Richey (near Tampa), Florida, sold 67 homes in the first 11 months, exceeding expectations of 50 homes in year one. Homes include a variety of single houses, townhouses, and stand-alone live/work units. Prices range from...
Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices is a discussion paper prepared for the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and PolicyLink and written by Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard. The...
A 100-acre TND called Cotton Crossing in New Braunfels, Texas, recently began construction. As of May, six homes were built, three more were under construction, and all lots were sold in the 130-acre first phase. Multifamily dwellings and a 30,000...
Cost of construction, price of real estate, uncertain economy, and lack of design precedent contribute to decision.
Home Depot has pulled back from plans to build a mixed-use, four-story building in Portland, Oregon (see the April/May 2001 issue...
Urban Parks Institute, a program of Project for Public Spaces, has developed the website http://urbanparks.org/ to provide information and resources on revitalizing urban public spaces.
Category: public open space. Subcategory: plazas and squares.
Rotary, circle, and circus identify urban spatial elements associated with circular traffic movement. The first tends to occur towards the Rural end of the Transect, the last towards...
Work will soon begin on a long-term, $193-million, public-private initiative to revitalize the depressed Greenlaw-Manassas area of Memphis. A plan for the 160-block area north of the central business district, now called Uptown Memphis, was created...
The first Australian and New Zealand New Urbanism Congress held in Melbourne in late April attracted over 370 participants from six countries. The format included a two-day main “overview” congress, followed by local project tours and a two-day...