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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.
The New Urban Design Group in Calgary, Alberta, is working on a resort village in the Canadian Rockies that will take its inspiration from some of the great hill towns in Europe. The project, Silvertip Village, is one of several new urbanist...
Glenwood Park, the award-winning traditional neighborhood development in Atlanta, now has a park for dogs and their owners.
Green Street Properties, which is developing the 28-acre community, donated land for a dog park after discovering that “...
By Christopher B. LeinbergerIsland Press, 2007, 224 pp., $25.95 hardcover.
Charles Bohl and the Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami are running a series of workshops in Lexington, Kentucky, to help local leaders make decisions about “legacy projects” that will be created for the 2010 World...
An examination of the “transportation energy intensity” of buildings found that getting people to and from work uses more energy than the buildings themselves consume. The article in Environmental Building News shows that for an average office...
Katrina Cottages that were recently placed in Mississippi locations as part of the state’s $280 million alternative housing pilot program are able to withstand winds of 150 mph, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency confirmed in late September...
Sandy Sorlien, coauthor of the SmartCode v9.0 and Manual, is no longer working with the SmartCode Pro Sessions. Instead, to supplement both SCP and PlaceMakers’ SmartCode Workshops, Sandy has launched SmartCode Local, an intensive master class in...
The Planning and Zoning Commission of Mansfield, Connecticut, approved the plan for Storrs Center, a mixed-use town center being developed by LeylandAlliance in cooperation with Mansfield Downtown Partnership, a public entity. A special zoning...
The South Main development in Buena Vista, Colorado, is the first new urbanist project in the Rocky Mountains — and perhaps in the entire western US — to start selling Katrina Cottages. In August, South Main Development Inc. began offering four...
Nearly 35 percent of American children live within a mile of their school, but only half of those students regularly get to school on foot or on a bicycle, says a report in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The...
Taos, one of the most historic communities in New Mexico, is sponsoring a charrette the week of September 17 to produce a locally tailored version of the SmartCode and a land-use master plan. Susan Henderson of PlaceMakers says her firm initially...
To prepare for the 2008 Charlotte transportation summit, CNU is seeking best practice examples for transportation networks. We are looking for policies that support networks and examples of planned approaches or built projects that reflect a...