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.
Progress on transit and transit-oriented development in many regions across the US is included in a new report from the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.
During the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ annual meeting, Heather Smith, program director for CNU, hailed the response that a CNU-ITE manual has generated.
The Al Aqaba charrette planned for new growth in a Palestinian village and designed a West Bank version of the “Katrina Cottage.”
The City Council of South Padre Island, Texas, adopted a redevelopment plan and form-based code for the 6-mile commercial corridor along Padre Boulevard.
Smart Growth America and Charlier & Associates are helping five rural communities to submit TIGER III grants on October 31.
Livability Solutions helps communities with problems such as outdated zoning codes and a lack of consensus on where and how to grow.
Three main principles; Beautiful Places, Defined Places and Anticipation of a Place, were used to build extra value out of typical suburban post-meltdown wreckage.
A careful analysis of Schooner Bay in the Bahamas shows the financial and other benefits of taking a slower, culturally attuned, lower-debt approach to development.
Bothell, Washington, adapts to current employment and living trends by redoing highways and making a walkable, mixed-use downtown.
How does a gritty West Virginia town revitalize itself into a thriving, mixed-use, walkable community in a down economy? A week-long charrette and federal livability grants help figure it out.
Congress should recognize that President Obama has injected a considerable dose of wisdom into the government’s community-building efforts.
Transportation planner Patrick Siegman lays out three approaches to parking regulations in an attempt to move municipalities away from parking minimums.