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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.
A $100 million fund that will invest in urban mixed-income housing developments was announced in late April by its two partners — Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and L&M Development Partners. The fund, GSLM Capital Partners LLC, expects to...
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...
Edited by Tigran HaasRizzoli, 2008, 349 pp., $50 hardcover
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,...
Daniel Parolek, Karen Parolek, and Paul Crawford have identified nine errors that people commonly make when designing and applying form-based codes (FBCs).
Fourteen homebuilders are at work in Oshara Village, a New Mexico development that combines New Urbanism and resource-saving features to reduce stress on the environment. Developer Alan Hoffman says his 470-acre project, just south of Santa Fe, uses...
The latest edition of “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” identifies transit-oriented development as a “best bet” for investors. The annual report published by the Urban Land Institute and Pricewaterhouse Coopers says that in light of traffic...
The US Green Building Council has compiled an on-line catalog of green building strategies that have been used in LEED-certified projects. The Innovation & Design Credit Catalog is available at www.usgbc.org.
Hank Dittmar, chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, received the Seaside Prize during a ceremony in Seaside, Florida. Dittmar, who stepped down as chairman of the board of CNU this April, was honored for “significant...