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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.
The Prince’s Foundation uses traditional urbanism to reclaim difficult settings.��A Caribbean version of new urbanist techniques is being relied upon to rebuild an impoverished part of West Kingston, Jamaica, that has been ravaged by 30 years of...
From Despair to Hope is the story of the transformation of public housing, a story that deeply involves New Urbanism.
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...
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.
As part of its ongoing Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative, The Congress for the New Urbanism is proposing changes to the International Fire Code that will empower local fire code officials to be more flexible on street designs. These...
The University of Utah has established a new professional education program, the Mountain West Planning and Design Academy. Reid Ewing, a well-known researcher in the smart growth field, will guide the program with Chris Arthur and Robert Young. The...
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.