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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...
A series of workshops will take place to create a regional transportation vision for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. Portfolio Associates will lead the effort, which will also include Kittelson & Associates and TND Planning Group. The...
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...
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...
The New York State Environmental Protection Fund’s Smart Growth Grant Program awarded $500,000 in grants for smart growth planning projects in the Hudson Valley.
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.