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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.
Connie M. Moran was elected mayor of her hometown, Ocean Springs, Miss., in June 2005. Two months later, Hurricane Katrina changed almost everything.“Her leadership was immediately tested and she was a real stand-out among all the elected officials...
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...
Eco-urban legends will connect past and future of sustainable communities, while transportation summit will explore need for networks
Photo 1 caption (on page 1): White concrete tile roofs give Alys Beach in Florida a distinctive look. See article on page 10.
Edited by Stephen R. Kellert, Judith H. Heerwagen, and Martin L. MadorJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008, 400 pp., $75 hardcover
Transit-oriented residential development generates far fewer automobile trips than conventional development, according to recent research conducted by PB PlaceMaking, Robert Cervero, the Urban Land Institute, and the Center for Transit-Oriented...
Baldwin Park, a large TND in Orlando, recorded 282 new and existing home sales in 2007, down from 448 sales in 2006, according to a recent report in the Orlando Sentinel. The peak year was 2005, when 524 houses were sold. House values have held up...
Seventeen blocks of Pratt Street in Baltimore would be upgraded into a grand “Avenue of the Inner Harbor” if a design concept produced by Ayers/Saint/Gross in association with the Olin Partnership is carried out. The two firms received a Downtown...