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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.
“New Urbanism is not a social service program. A walkable neighborhood will not provide day care and affordable health care for impoverished families, or counseling for substance abusers, or community policing to help control crime. ... New Urbanism...
A group of Canadian urban designers from Toronto has organized the Urban Design Group, associated with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. Some participants are members of CNU, others are sympathizers; all apply new urbanist principles in...
CNU members are the key to making CNU.org as accurate, up-to-date, and informative as possible. Members can provide information about themselves and their practices. They will update information about development projects. They will upload new...
New Urban Communities of Del Ray is developing BotAnica/Sea Plum in Jupiter, Florida, the company’s first neighborhood-scale project. This 143-acre TND, designed by Cotleur-Hearing, will include 360 apartments, 138 single family homes, 132 townhomes...
The majority of transit-oriented developments (TODs) are built adjacent to rail lines, but the Twin Creeks project under construction in Central Point in southwestern Oregon, is part of an effort to boost regional bus service. Comprised of 1,500...
In California, ground has been broken for the Hercules Waterfront District, the first new urbanist development project in the San Francisco Bay Area city, which last year adopted a regulating plan and a typological code created by Dover Kohl &...
Despite numerous setbacks, Pulte Home Corp. is not giving up on Salamanca, the 160-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Dade County, Florida. The project, the nation’s largest homebuilder’s first attempt at TND and the first test of...
Fairfax County, Virginia, supervisors approved a $100 million transit-oriented development on 58 acres at the Huntington Metro Station, the first project under the county’s new “smart growth” measure. The developers plan to build a combination of...
Local governments in Pennsylvania are encouraged to adopt traditional neighborhood development (TND) ordinances by recent revisions to the state Municipalities Planning Code (MPC). Adopted in 2000, a TND section was authored by State Rep. Robert...
New designs north of the border focus on infill and sustainability.
Canada saw rapid growth in new urbanist projects in the late 1990s, when more than 20 traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs) began construction, primarily in greenfield...
Fregonese Calthorpe Associates is hired to draw a regional plan for a California county where job and population growth is outpacing the supply of housing.
Contra Costa County is feeling the pressure. The latest census revealed that the San...
“... we suppress the brashness, energy and inventiveness of local governments at our peril — even if some of those showy golf-course behomoths aren’t always to our individual liking. As a former colleague of mine, John Barnes, liked to put it,...