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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 major suburban center near Baltimore will likely become much more congenial for pedestrians, thanks to a six-day charrette sponsored by Baltimore County. The charrette, led by Stuart Sirota of TND Planning Group, produced a plan that calls for...
Most of the action and rhetoric on the US-Mexico border has to do with building fences, tightening security, and preventing Mexicans from entering the US illegally. In the midst of all this, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists has been...
The developers of Prairie Crossing in Grayslake, Illinois, 40 miles northwest of the Chicago Loop, are creating a mixed-use town center adjacent to two Metra rail stations served by a total of 57 commuter trains each weekday. Ben Ranney, whose firm...
In the September issue, we reported that Marianne Cusato modified some architectural elements of her Katrina Cottages so that they would suit the South Main development in Buena Vista, Colorado. We have since learned that although the original...
The Long Beach, Mississippi, Board of Aldermen voted in September to institute a framework for rules under which the SmartCode would apply to the approximately 17,000-population municipality, damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Boyle Investment Company hopes to break ground by early this month on Berry Farms, a partly new urbanist project in Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville. The mixed-use development, a significant step forward for the 58,000-population Williamson...
Edited by Abhijeet Chavan, Christian Peralta, and ChristopherSteins Island Press, 2007, 208 pp., hardcover $35, paperback $19.95.
LeylandAlliance is teaming with Habitat for Humanity to develop several parcels of land in the downtown historic district of Newburgh, New York, and reconfigure them into affordable housing. The new urbanist firm is the master developer of the...
The Movement for Israeli Urbanism (MIU), Israel’s version of CNU, is sponsoring a charrette December 2-6 to replan a border town severely effected by the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. “We invite you to take part in changing urban planning...
The City of San Gabriel, California, adopted a plan aimed at transforming Valley Boulevard — the community’s major transportation corridor — and the adjacent residential neighborhoods into a vibrant mixed-use area. The Valley Vision Plan calls for...
Douglas Duany is working for the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment and is living in Poundbury, the town in southwest England being developed by Prince Charles. His responsibilities include teaching the Foundation’s urban designers who...