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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.
n The first residents will move into Austin Ranch in The Colony, Texas, in the spring of 2000. The 5,000-unit project is planned by RTKL, Calthorpe Associates, and BGO Architects. The first phase includes 548 apartment units near the future mixed-...
Continuum Partners of Denver, Colorado, has
submitted plans for Bradburn Village, a 112-acre TND to be located in Westminster, a municipality between Denver and Boulder. The master plan was conceived by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. Civitas will...
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently gave its annual Award for Excellence in the Mixed-Use Small Scale category to East Pointe, an eight-block development in Milwaukee. The jury characterized East Pointe as a model for joint public and private...
The Town Council of Huntington, New York, approved smart growth principles on October 5, 1999, that support the development of walkable, mixed-use, neighborhoods. A nonprofit citizens group, Vision Huntington, spearheaded an effective campaign to...
Comprehensive Design Solutions (CDS) in Hilton Head, South Carolina, now offers TND developers help in creating better homes and streetscapes. The firm’s developer kits include two categories of portfolios: One features 10 floor plans and three...
Homes in I’On, a TND in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, have proved popular. Housing values in this TND have skyrocketed due, in part, to a red-hot real estate market. A colonial-style single home that sold originally for $164,000 in February, 1998...
Southside, a new urbanist redevelopment of a Victorian neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now cleared to break ground in early spring of 2000. Designed by Tom Low of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and developed by Nate Bowman, Southside...
LUME 4, NUMBERS 1–6 (January/February – November/December, 1999)
Feature articles Issue, page
CITIES/INFILL
Pumping life into a city with urban design Jan/Feb 1, 3-6
Downtowns gaining population nationwide Jan/Feb 6
True urbanists May/Jun 1, 6...
Live/work units, an updated version of the old live-above-the-shop storefront, now are built or under construction in a handful of new urbanist projects. Units are built or under construction at Vermillion in Huntersville, North Carolina, Kentlands...
Until very recently, retail has been a mostly unrealized dream of the New Urbanism. The promise of integrating residential and commercial uses is an essential ingredient in the recipe for traditional neighborhood development (TND), but few new...
New Jersey’s FY 2000 budget includes $3 million for “Smart Growth Planning Grants” to assist counties and other government agencies in developing plans that “lead to reasonable managed growth strategies that will be translated into ordinances.” The...
A first-of-its-kind study measuring market demand for new urbanist housing in the Philadelphia region is being funded by the GreenSpace Alliance of Southeastern Pennsylvania and 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. The study, by Zimmerman-Volk Associates...