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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.
Widewaters Group, based in DeWitt, New York, and Robert M. Leidig & Associates, in Monterey County, California, have been authorized by the City of Salinas, California, to negotiate the master planning and redevelopment of an eight-block area in...
Seven hundred housing units, plus other buildings, will be constructed in a tight configuration around the Forest Hills rail and bus station in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston if the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has its way. The...
To expedite development along avenues in Toronto, Ontario, and to encourage more and better-designed mid-rise buildings, the city government is seeking proposals from a multi-disciplinary consultant team, including experts in urban design, mid-rise...
The first phase of Liberty Harbor, a 28-block project near the Hudson River in Jersey City, New Jersey, is nearly complete, with a dense collection of multi-story structures ranging from glass-box Modernist townhouses to traditional buildings with...
Whittaker Homes, the successful developer of New Town at St. Charles, Missouri, is stalled in efforts to build a similar, even larger development in the city of Liberty, near Kansas City, according to a report in The Kansas City Star. The holdup for...
Jonathan Rose Companies of Katonah, New York, broke ground June 3 on Metro Green Apartments, 50 units of affordable housing in Stamford, Connecticut. Metro Green Apartments is the first phase of a project that includes 238 mixed-income rental and...
When Sonoma Mountain Village, a northern California new urban community for 5,000 residents, begins construction in 2009, its developers intend to outfit it with an unusual array of energy- and water-saving techniques.
Many lots in old neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, are just 25 feet wide, which is generally too narrow to satisfy current minimum standards for the construction of new houses. Consequently, 180 Degree Urban Design + Architecture has produced a...
The Routledge publishing house this spring launched the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. The multidisciplinary, international journal will be distributed three times a year both in print and online...
“Light Imprint New Urbanism,” an environmentally sensitive approach to planning, has won Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. a Green Innovation Award from the Charlotte (North Carolina) Business Journal and the Charlotte Chapter of the US Green Building...
Dover Kohl led a charrette in November, 2007, to design Long Savannah in Charleston, South Carolina — a new town with close to 3,000 acres, according to James Dougherty of Dover Kohl. The development will include an 1,800-acre open space buffer, a...
Jennifer Henry, director of the LEED-Neighborhood Development program for the US Green Building Council, is leaving that organization at the end of June. She is moving to Chicago, where she will become real estate sector manager for the Natural...