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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.
Transportation for America released poll results in late March demonstrating overwhelming American support for more resources devoted to public transportation — especially trains. More than four in five voters (82 percent) say that “the United...
Six Haitian architects, planners, and government officials spent four days in late March with a University of Miami charrette team
The New York State Department of Transportation will begin converting a 15-mile stretch of suburban highway into “a kind of suburban boulevard” this spring.
Although form-based codes (FBCs) are proliferating, practitioners disagree on precisely how a code should go about pursuing its goals.
As CNU vice-chair and award-winning urban planner Victor Dover articulated so well at the opening of CNU 17, urbanism alone stands as a potential generator of solutions for multiple critical tests facing our country and its communities. One year...
An updated US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report shows a continuing shift in development toward urban neighborhoods in the US, despite a slow real estate market. EPA’s 2010 report, “Residential Construction Trends in America’s Metropolitan...
Capital MetroRail, the first modern passenger rail system in central Texas, began carrying commuters on 32 miles of track between downtown Austin and the northwest suburb of Leander March 22.
The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index is a powerful tool for evaluating urban form.
Historical Concepts a design firm in Peachtree City Georgia has won the 2010 Arthur Ross Award for E
Historical Concepts, a design firm in Peachtree City, Georgia, has won the 2010 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition in the category of architecture.
Residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, are debating whether a world-class “science city” proposed by Johns Hopkins University would solidify the county’s economic future or inundate a large area near Rockville and Gaithersburg in traffic and...
The first phase of the 50-acre Westport Waterfront began in January in Baltimore The 12 billion mixe
The first phase of the 50-acre Westport Waterfront began in January in Baltimore. The $1.2 billion mixed use urban center by Turner Development Company and the Carlyle Group is planned to include 2,000 houses, 2 million square feet of offices, 300,...