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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.
Brent Warr, the mayor of Gulfport, Mississippi, who participated energetically in the Mississippi Renewal Forum after Hurricane Katrina, announced in March that he will not seek reelection. The Sun Herald said Warr “is facing Katrina fraud charges...
Coming to Denver, June 10-13, the 17th Congress for the New Urbanism gathers the resourcefulness and ingenuity of the New Urbanism under one roof.
“Lifelong Communities” charrette spurs a warming of relations between new urbanists and disability-rights activists.The Atlanta Regional Commission had Andres Duany lead a charrette in February aimed at helping municipal and county governments...
Recently released and soon-to-be released studies show that people who live in cities and near transit generate substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions, both in the US and internationally.
A study by the International Institute for Environment...
The current downturn, says a top retail expert, is “shaking out plans and centers that were poorly conceived.”
“I’d like for us to invest in mass transit because potentially that’s energy-efficient. I think people are a lot more open now to thinking regionally in terms of how we plan our transportation infrastructure. The days where we are just building...
Government leaders in Toronto are planning to install a network of light-rail lines that will greatly expand transit service across Canada’s largest city. Mayor David Miller and the Toronto Transit Commission have championed a 75-mile “Transit City...
In two developments within the past year, Wolff Lyon Architects of Boulder, Colorado, has produced two-family houses that have two fronts. As designed by principal Tom Lyon, each of these duplexes has one façade that faces a street and another...
A battle is being waged in South Carolina regarding a highway proposal that epitomizes the larger choices the nation faces on infrastructure investments. The highway is an extension of a beltway, I-526, that encircles much of Charleston, South...
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has continued to refine “agricultural urbanism” — the idea “in which all aspects of urbanism are focused on food production.” The firm is drafting a booklet covering what it has learned from agricultural urbanism...
The Center for Applied Transect Studies has launched a website “to gather the work and intelligence of New Urbanists who use the Transect as a tool against sprawl and climate change.” The Center, a nonprofit think tank supporting research,...
Peter Katz has been appointed director of Smart Growth/Urban Planning by Sarasota County, Florida. In his new position, Katz, founding president of the Form-Based Codes Institute, will work on implementing smart growth principles for development and...