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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 Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. completed a vision plan for Camden, South Carolina, and is being invited back to discuss additional work, including a zoning rewrite, adoption of “Light Imprint” New Urbanism...
The Vintage Group, led by Riverhead, New York, developer John Burke, is planning a four-acre mixed-use project that that would be a pivot point between downtown Riverhead and a panoply of transit connections — existing Long Island Railroad commuter...
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) set final targets for greenhouse gas reductions that included 5 million metric tons from land use and regional transportation sectors. That target, considerably lower than what environmental groups were...
The City of Baltimore unveiled the multiphase Charles North Vision Plan to turn a 100-acre arts and entertainment district north of Penn Station into a $1 billion “cultural crossroads” including 1,900 housing units, 557,000 sq. ft. of retail, 300,...
The new US administration’s economic stimulus plan is sometimes framed as a battle between roads and transit. The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) has a sensible proposal to bridge that divide — if anyone is listening.
While the CNU supports...
To create an attractive gateway to downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, and to serve the future NASCAR Hall of Fame, a 30-acre Interstate highway interchange near the city’s center is being replaced with a more compact urban interchange.
By Hank Dittmar BlackDog Publishing, 2008, 80 pp., $12.50Nations worldwide are setting ambitious targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases in response to dire scientific warnings of global warming’s consequences. Few if any leaders know how to...
Jamestown Properties has acquired the small Atlanta developer Green Street Properties to pursue the “green development” trend in the US. Green Street was cofounded in 2001 by former MindSpring Enterprises Inc. CEO Charles Brewer and fellow New...
The Mount Dora City Commission in Florida has approved plans by Crosland LLC to build a 162-acre traditional neighborhood called Indian Springs. The development, on the site of an old tree farm and nursery in a town of about 12,000, north of Orlando...
The US Green Building Council and Island Press, both nonprofit, are together starting GreenWorks, a book club that promises to offer “the newest and best books on green building at discounted prices.” The first four books to be featured are Emerald...
Bruce Tolar led a four-day planning session in October that proposed a new zoning code, tree-lined streets, a farmers’ market, a trackside entertainment district, and other ideas for enhancing Flora, Mississippi, a town of about 1,600 people near...