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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.
Inner City Task Force members are working with HUD to put together another program to train public housing officials in new urbanist design. It will be modeled after the successful Harvard seminar led by CNU in 1996.
CNU’s Charter Book is up and running, once again. Michael Leccese and Kathleen McCormick of Fountainhead Communications have recently been hired as editors of this forthcoming book elaborating on the Charter of the New Urbanism. We hope to have the...
The Charter of the New Urbanism states that “civic, institutional and commercial activity should be embedded in neighborhoods and districts, not isolated in remote, single-use complexes. Schools should be sized and located to enable children to walk...
As defined by New Urban News, TNDs generally include an interconnected networks of streets and blocks, a clear neighborhood center (or centers, in the case of large projects), a mix of uses and housing types, a compact form, and pedestrian-oriented...
Transit lines are planned for two large traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs): Addison Circle (Addison, Texas) and King Farm (Rockville, Maryland). Both of these TNDs feature high residential density, plus significant retail and office space...
CNU is currently issuing a Call for Presentations at CNU VII. Submittals are due in the CNU office
by November 2, 1998. Look at
our web site for more information: www.cnu.org.
This Congress for the New Urbanism and the movement in general have been getting a lot of media attention, both positive and negative. The good
news is that CNU issues — building real neighborhoods and livable streets, promoting compact regional...
The Seaside Neighborhood School opened in 1997. In terms of public schools, nothing like it has been built in decades. The building resembles a 100-year-old New England meeting house, albeit one equipped with modern, handicapped accessible...
An adaptive reuse of an automotive shop is spurring a larger redevelopment of a depressed Detroit neighborhood. The 1921 shop is being converted into 28 market-rate, for-sale residential lofts, according to J.C. Cataldo of Canfield Lofts LLC, the...
A long-awaited train station recently opened at The Crossings, the transit-oriented village designed by Calthorpe Associates in Mountain View, California. The promise of a station helped to sell homes at the 16-acre mixed-use project, which is 80...
The Inner City and Transportation Task Forces have been asked by the Northeast-Midwest Institute, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, to copublish a book on implementing urban infill and transit-oriented development. Funding comes, in part, from the U....
Edward Bohrer Jr., the four-term mayor of Gaithersburg, Maryland, died on August 27 at the age of 58. A public servant of vision and integrity, he was an important role model in the early days of the New Urbanism.
Together with developer Joe...