Publisher Diane Dorney has changed the name

Publisher Diane Dorney has changed the name of The Town Paper to New Towns and has added critiques of new urban neighborhoods, written by Laurence Aurbach. Aurbach devised a rating system based on 11 factors: housing diversity, mixed uses, connectivity, block length, external connections, compactness of the town center, compactness elsewhere, location, streetscapes, architecture, and civic space. New Towns, based in Kentlands but with a wide geographic distribution, intends to have Aurbach conduct in-depth studies, including a visit to each place he critiques and interviews with relevant sources.