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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.
A study of Hartford, Connecticut, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, finds that if employers subsidized transit and charged for parking, demand for parking spaces might fall by a fifth.
A recent survey of US communities finds that Form-based codes started to take off noticeably in 2007, and the surge of adoptions continues today.
Yarrow Ecovillage near Chilliwack British Columbia is planning to build a mixed-use center that woul
Yarrow Ecovillage, near Chilliwack, British Columbia, is planning to build a mixed-use center that would compensate for the loss of its town center when shopping malls took customers away years ago. Co-housing expert Charles Durrett of McCamant...
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...
Newland Communities, developer of the 1,200-unit, 270-acre Clarksburg Town Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been fined $22,000 by the County Planning Board for building in ways that were at odds with what the county had approved.
After three years of work, Pine Hall Development Corporation received general plan approval for a 150-acre traditional neighborhood development called Pine Hall in Ferguson Township, near State College, Pennsylvania. The project will begin approvals...
The Humphreys Company of Oklahoma City began clearing land in December in eastern Oklahoma for Carlton Landing, a lakeside, mostly second-home community that will include an organic farm, a town center, and a wedding chapel.
Developer Grant...
Looking for a new urbanist take on The Old Farmers Almanac Tom Low and others in the Charlotte North
Looking for a new urbanist take on The Old Farmer’s Almanac? Tom Low and others in the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. have assembled the Light Imprinter’s Almanac for 2010, which offers advice to “growers and...