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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.
About 11 blocks of Granville Street, historically one of the premier shopping streets in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, will get a $20.8 million (Canadian) ($20.4 million US) makeover, starting in September. The street’s retailing started...
By Stacy MitchellBeacon Press, 2007, 336 pp., $15 paperback
Waveland, Mississippi, one of the municipalities most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, has turned away from new urbanist rebuilding plans. Planner and architect Robert Orr, who participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum in October, 2005, reports...
The US Environmental Protection Agency has created a suggested stormwater permit framework geared to encouraging higher-density, mixed-use development and “low-impact” runoff management techniques. The EPA permit framework is voluntary, but it...
The City of Hercules, California, has been dragging its feet on adopting a master plan for the final 40 acres of a large new urban waterfront development that has been under construction in central Hercules for the past seven years (see March 2005...
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Dhiru Thadani of Ayers Saint Gross is leading a team that is master-planning Akruti University, a new institution for 35,000 students near Mumbai, India. The team is producing the schematics for the buildings in addition to the plan. Earlier,...
Doug Farr’s book Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature, published by Wiley and reviewed in the Dec. 2007 New Urban News, went into a second printing after only six weeks on the market. Farr has begun a national series of training seminars...
Most of the communities along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi are demanding that “Mississippi Cottages” — small, vernacular dwellings designed by new urbanists for Hurricane Katrina survivors — be hauled away by next spring.
Nearly 2,400 cottages...
The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education and the Maryland Department of Transportation are establishing a joint Transportation Policy Research Group at the University of Maryland in College Park. Its purposes include identifying...
Ann Daigle is coordinating work on a plan to have the Creative Film Arts Program of the University of Southern Mississippi occupy the university’s historic Gulf Coast campus in Long Beach. Hurricane Katrina destroyed some campus buildings in 2005,...
Table 1 title: Housing price change for selected Zip Code areas
Table 2 title: Change in housing prices
New Urban News has reported for some time, based on observations and published stories, that urban neighborhoods have performed better than...