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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.
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...
The first traditional neighborhood development (TND) centered on a historic crossroads will serve as the heart of a sprawling suburb.
Cherry Hill Village in Canton Township, Michigan, could be called a true “second generation” TND because it...
The Board of Supervisors in Albemarle County, Virginia, has unanimously adopted The Neighborhood Model, a framework for development in designated growth areas in the Charlottesville region. New urbanist planning firm Torti Gallas and Partners/CHK...
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...
The Denver area’s first mall redevelopment is already well underway in the City of Englewood. Cinderella City, once one of the region’s premier malls, has been torn down to give way to CityCenter Englewood, a transit-oriented, walkable, mixed-use...
New urbanist principles inform a growing number of large-scale planning efforts.
For the past 10 years, the New Urbanism has been primarily defined by
individual projects, built in reaction to the reigning auto-oriented, single-use planning...
The University of Maryland has named Gerrit Knaap, a nationally-recognized scholar on the economics and politics of land-use planning, to serve as director of research for the university’s new National Center for Smart Growth Research, Education...
Partners for a Livable Western New York, based in Buffalo, has about 60 members, including many who belong to the Congress for the New Urbanism. The group consists mainly of professionals — i.e., architects, planners, traffic engineers, attorneys,...