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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.
Multiplex cinemas are becoming a mainstay of urban revitalization projects. Since the bulk of such theaters are not suited to address the street directly, fitting them into urban blocks where the street walls should engage pedestrians is a challenge...
Town Commons in Howell, Michigan, one of four TNDs getting underway in that state, will see its first retail buildings under construction in October 2000. In a reversal of the usual TND order of residential first, commercial second, developer...
The Lakefront Development Corporation (LDC) in Syracuse, New York, is talking with private developers about turning a blighted, 24-acre, brownfield site called Harbor West into a mixed-use, walkable neighborhood. The project was designed by Duany...
CNU is organizing a series of regional training seminars for public housing
officials. The series builds on CNU's longtime partnership with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The conferences are part of HUD's HopeVI program...
Developer partners with the city on innovative program to weave affordable units throughout new neighborhood.
The Iowa City Housing Authority and one or more not-for-profit developers are looking to build 38 affordable housing units throughout...
In Austin, Texas, planners have created a score card system to determine if a development deserves financial support from the city.
Providing financial incentives in the form of reduced development fees and infrastructure construction is one of...
Anchor Mill in Huntersville, North Carolina, a transit-oriented project involving developer Nate Bowman, is now facing political snags. Bowman, developer of the new urbanist Vermillion (which recently won a Sierra Club award as the best project in...
The fate of Crocker Park, a planned new urbanist retail and residential development in Westlake, Ohio, is now in the hands of voters at the November ballots. The project will go forward if voters approve an amendment to the city’s zoning code for...
Clarksburg Town Center, a 268-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) plan by Torti Gallas & Partners that remained on paper for 10 years, is finally breaking ground. Terrabrook, the developer that purchased the project and moved it...
The board of the North Carolina Department of Transportation has approved a set of Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) Street Design Guidelines.
The guidelines can be applied to development projects outside city limits where the state builds...
New award highlights second generation of the New Urbanism.
Attention architects, developers, and planners: CNU's inaugural Charter Awards want your best work. With its distinguished jury, the award represents CNU's attempt to “raise the bar” on...
Traffic generated by Reston Town Center in northern Virginia is close to 50 percent lower than what would ordinarily be expected in a comparably sized suburban development, according to a traffic study by Wells & Associates.