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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.
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...
CNU’s annual Congress proved to be just what urbanists in the hard-hit fields of planning and community design and development needed.
Two studies reinforce the importance of walkable, compact development in dealing with climate change.
Paul M. Weyrich and William S. LindAll in all, Moving Minds is the most persuasive reading I have encountered on public transit.
A charrette in June led by TND Planning Group fleshed out ideas for a transit-oriented development in the Highlandtown area of Baltimore that could add up to 4,000 residences in the area of a Red Line transit stop, says The Baltimore Sun.
Just over a year after the Congress for the New Urbanism launched the Emergency Response & Street Design Initiative, the project is poised to change minds and national fire codes.
Instead of calling for more discussion, LEED organizers want to put the Neighborhood Development program up for a yes-or-no vote.After five years of preparation and testing, members of the US Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Congress for the...
David Cohen says he hasn’t given up on his dream of building defect-free houses in a factory and then wheeling them onto foundations in a new urban community. But he has recalibrated the number of houses that his company, Cohen Brothers Homes, must...
Reform of the state departments of transportation has been a key goal of new urbanists for years — and it appears to be actually underway in two major states, Pennsylvania and Texas.
A 150-plus-acre tract in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania is planned for a mixed-use traditional neighborhood development, the Centre Daily Times reports. The plan was created by Thomas Comitta Associates of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburban area of nearly 1 million people bordering the nation’s capital, is considering adopting a system that would offer financial incentives and reduced impact fees to developers who build near mass transit, provide...
A page 1 article in the June 2009 issue referred to Hampton, Virginia, as a city with “little or no existing urbanism.” While mostly suburban in character, Hampton has a historic area with a grid of streets and a downtown. The city has been working...