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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.
Hammond’s Ferry cuts costs while trying to preserve essential features.
Jason Spellings housing liaison for the office of Mississippi Gov Haley Barbour in the recovery effo
Jason Spellings, housing liaison for the office of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina, is resigning to become vice president of Southeastern Operations for The Wishcamper Companies, a national affordable...
Up to 550 apartments some of them reserved for artists will be constructed in the first phase of a d
Up to 550 apartments, some of them reserved for artists, will be constructed in the first phase of a development adjoining the Fort Totten Metro station in northeast Washington, DC, if the overall 929-unit project receives city approval. The Morris...
Residents of Madison Connecticut voted Jan 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAl
Residents of Madison, Connecticut, voted Jan. 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAlliance, which for nearly a decade had been planning to build a development called Madison Landing on the site. Leyland, which had paid $4.2...
By Michael BehrendtThe town’s planner for the past 14 years, new urbanist Michael Behrendt adeptly uses Rochester’s architecture as a springboard to a larger topic: the making of good communities wherever they happen to be.
The Colorado units in a contemporary style would be suitable for infill and new urban applications.
The groundbreaking manual for context-sensitive urban thoroughfares jointly created by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is a draft no more.
In the Town of Islip on Long Island New York the chairman of the Community Development Agency propos
In the Town of Islip on Long Island, New York, the chairman of the Community Development Agency proposed last year that modest houses on the order of Katrina Cottages be built to accommodate townspeople of modest means. In response, Planning and...
Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists of Pasadena California was selected in late January to l
Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists of Pasadena, California, was selected in late January to lead the planning and design of 7,000 acres of Fresno, California, the state’s fifth largest city with approximately 500,000 people.
Modular-adaptable designs are seen as a possible solution to Northeastern housing needs.
How do you fit short-term housing for some 60 musical theater people into a 19th-century Connecticut village, the kind of place that tenaciously resists...
Kentlands-based entrepreneur says the time has come for smaller houses and less elaborate developments.
Nearly everyone connected with real estate development has been hurt by the economic calamities of the past two years, publishers included.
It’...
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...