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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.
Frijoles Village, a traditional neighborhood development in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is now called Aldea. More importantly, an equity investor, FCA/Holly Mortgage of Houston, has been found for the project.
Modular housing designs by Frank Lloyd Wright which have not been built in 80 years are getting a renaissance in Washington Square, a housing development which broke ground in February in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The design of Wright’s American...
Architect Daniel Parolek of Envision Design in Berkeley, California, has designed the winning entry in the New Growth Area category of the international competition Housing the Next Ten Million.
With their variety of housing types, TNDs potentiallyare able to respond to changes in demographics and market demand better than conventional subdivisions. With that advantage in mind, savvy developers like to keep their plans as flexible as...
North Carolina town is seeking a master developer for a 125-acre transit-oriented project.
It’s difficult to imagine a more complete vision of smart growth in the suburbs than the combination town center and transit- oriented development (TOD)...
Changing Direction, a study by the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STTP), presents both good and bad news about the direction of federal transportation spending in the 1990s. On the positive side, the study says funding increased for repair...
The downtown of Celebration a neotraditional town in Osceola County, Florida, is still going through some growing pains. Although many of the businesses — particularly restaurants — have been successful, about a half dozen have failed, the...
CNU will collaborate with local and federal agencies on the redevelopment of Washington, D.C.’s, underused southern shore.
Between the Southeast Freeway and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., five short blocks from the U.S. Capitol, is a...
The City of Clearwater near Tampa, Florida, has selected a team of new urbanist developers to head the redevelopment of the city’s downtown. George de Guardiola and Bruce A. Rendina, developers of Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter, Florida, have joined...
Editor’s note: Vince Graham and Robert Turner were interviewed separately. The following are quotes from those interviews on the subject of building human-scale communities.
On the New Urbanism/TND
Vince Graham: “We believe in TND, and we’re...
Building a balanced neighborhood requires walking a fine line between implementing new urbanist principles and anticipating market demand.
An analysis of the mix of housing types in selectednew urbanist communities highlights two aspects of this...
Working in traditional neighbor-hoods pushes two companies to build with an eye on the whole street and to collaborate more closely with planners and developers.
Houses built by David WeekleyHomes and Saussy Burbank in new urbanist projects in...