Archives
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.
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)...
Colorado’s Republican Governor Bill Owens has unveiled a proposal to curb growth, “Smart Growth: Colorado’s future.” The plan’s four main objectives are to preserve open space by giving tax credits to landowners who preserve wildlife habitat; to...
Pasadena, California, is the latest city to join the movement to replace dying shopping malls with mixed-use development. Plaza Pasadena, an enclosed mall built in the 1970s, covers a three- block area in the heart of downtown and obliterates one...
Registrations are flowing in for CNU 2000: The Politics of Place. We recommend you register early: Hotels are in hot demand, and inexpensive early registration for the conference ends May 15. If you haven't received your conference brochure, please...
Riverside, a traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Atlanta, Georgia, was entirely leased one and one half years after the project opened. Developed by Post Properties and designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Riverside consists of...
I’On
I’On is a 243-acre, 759-unit TND in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Vince Graham and his father, Tom Graham, are codevelopers. Geoff Graham, Vince’s brother, is the project manager. The master plan is by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ...
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...
Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening (D) has decided that a new campus for the University System of Maryland be housed in three vacant buildings in downtown Hagerstown instead of in a planned suburban building. Anti-sprawl groups applaud the...
The site of a planned new urbanist town in Ada, Michigan, designed by John Anderson and Philip Bess at a 1999 charrette, has changed hands. Ada Holdings LLC, owned by Amway Corporation president Dick DeVos and family, bought the 536- acre parcel...
The Seaside Institute will award its annual Seaside Prize posthumously to the Italian architect Aldo Rossi who died in 1997. In his practice as an architectural theoretician and teacher, Rossi used the city as his central theme. His best known works...