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...
Renaissance Downtowns says the Obama administration will be a boon to cities. Other developers at CNU agreed that plenty of urban investment is coming in the next decade. Equity will flow to urban undertakings because “people are more concerned...
Maryland’s Congressional representatives are being asked to insert $22.8 million of earmarks into the current federal transportation bill so that roundabouts can be built at five locations on busy Baltimore traffic corridors.
Frustrated by an inability to get financing for infrastructure construction, developer Steve Soler told The New York Times in June that he would like to sell the $300 million transit-oriented development in Redding, Connecticut, that he has been...