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.
From Despair to Hope is the story of the transformation of public housing, a story that deeply involves New Urbanism.
Patrick L. Phillips, president and CEO of ERA AECOM (formerly Economics Research Associates), will become the new CEO of the Urban Land Institute Sept. 14. It appears that ULI will continue to emphasize smart growth policies, which have become a...
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley announced his support in August for a 16-mile light-rail line that would tie together many northern suburbs of Washington, DC. Transit advocates say the proposed Purple Line, which would run from an existing...
Pilot program for housing designed after Hurricane Katrina is declared “a great success” by emergency agency.
The new president and CEO of Reconnecting America, which promotes transit-oriented development, is John Robert Smith, who as mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, helped bring development to the area around Meridian’s historic downtown train station....
Some of the British press reported that the work in Jamaica by the Prince’s Foundation would produce “a little slice of Poundbury” in a blighted Caribbean locale. That’s true in one sense: The Foundation is fostering a community that employs...
Beyond economy-wide pricing measures, land use strategies are the most effective long-term way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report’s authors, Cambridge Systematics.
Over the last few years, CNU’s annual transportation summit has become one of the nation’s top forums for advancing highly-connected, multimodal transportation networks.
The Smart Growth Schools website, designed to help people understand how they can improve their schools and communities through smart growth principles, was created recently. Overseen by Nathan Norris, Director of Implementation Advisory for...
CNU members began voting on the proposed LEED for Neighborhood Development program Aug. 19 and will continue electronic balloting until Sept. 17. In a statement on the CNU website, the CNU Board and CNU’s representatives on the LEED-ND advisory...
CityPlace as a whole “appears to be surviving OK,” says Dana Little, a designer who was on the DPZ team that planned the 72-acre development in 1993.
“The explosion of interest in streetcars stalled only slightly in 2008,” according to Gloria Ohland of Reconnecting America. Interest in streetcars moderated because of the national economic contraction and because it became evident that streetcars...