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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.
In the September issue, we reported that Dhiru Thadani of Baltimore-based Ayers Saint Gross would lead the planning for a brand-new university in Orissa, a state near the Bay of Bengal in India, and for the 40,000-population township that will be...
A master plan study that Ayers Saint Gross Architects and Planners prepared for hurricane-damaged Long Beach, Mississippi, received an award for excellence in urban design from the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Dhiru...
Joe Duckworth and five partners received entitlement in September to build a new town on 3,000 acres in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, with 12,000 houses and five million square feet of commercial space. Duckworth told New Urban News that the project has...
Virginia Governor Timothy M. Keane decided in September that the state will request federal support for construction of an elevated Metro rail line through Tysons Corner rather than push for a four-mile rail tunnel through the Virginia “edge city.”...
The City of Moss Point, Mississippi, one of the coastal communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina, is moving forward with a plan that includes adoption of the SmartCode, according to press reports. Steve Renfroe, chairman of the Moss Point...
The International City/County Management Association and the Smart Growth Network have released “This is Smart Growth,” a publication that illustrates how communities can improve the quality of development. It features 40 places around the country,...
Habitat for Humanity is seeking to raise its design standards through a collaboration with the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA&CA). Three architects selected by ICA&CA are designing houses in Rochester, New...
Downtown Montgomery will soon have a new plaza much like those in Europe. The Alabama city was about to rebuild an intersection around the 1885-vintage Court Street fountain when Ken Groves, head of the city planning department, asked Rick Hall and...
Berkeley-based planner says New Urbanism should focus more on jobs and regional planning.Peter Calthorpe, whose urban and regional planning work now extends from American locales such as Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Austin to overseas cities...
Transportation engineer Billy Hattaway, who consulted at the Mississippi Renewal Forum in October, 2005, has joined Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart of Orlando, Florida. Hattaway previously worked at Hall Planning & Engineering (...
An article in the September issue about the Tornagrain project in Scotland, being designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. (DPZ), contained two errors. According to DPZ, the project encompasses 550 acres, not 350 acres, and the managing director of...
Wal-Mart appears likely to use some new urbanist ideas when the company replaces its hurricane-destroyed store in Pass Christian, Mississippi, says Mayor Chip McDermott. Mayor McDermott told The Sun Herald in late September that Wal-Mart is taking...