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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.
“New Urbanism is Blooming” is the theme of the Summer 2006 issue of On Common Ground, a magazine published twice
Photo caption #1: A Charter Awards certificate for the creation of new traditional residential villages at Fort Belvoir, Virginia (including the first village: Herryford Village) will be hanging in the Pentagon, said Ivan Bolden, an assistant for...
Steve Mouzon has stepped down from PlaceMakers to devote all his energy to the growth of the New Urban Guild, which focuses on architectural charrettes, “manufactured architecture,” and tools for the making of traditional towns and buildings. One...
For five years public and private interests have sought to redevelop a commercial strip in New Castle County, Delaware, into a walkable village center. These efforts are bearing fruit as a 66-acre medium-density urban center called Brookview nears...
The Grand Valley Metro Council in Grand Rapids, Michigan, won the “best project” award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers Transportation Planning Council for a study that promotes form-based codes among governments in the Grand Rapids...
In downtown Cedar Key, Florida, a development will create a new block of mixed-use buildings plus the restoration of adjacent historic buildings dating to the 1860s. The $25 million project is under construction and expected to be complete in late...
The Village of Kennedyville in Kent County, Maryland — one of the first attempts to expand a historic hamlet into a village using traditional neighborhood design — broke ground this spring. Developer Carl Wright contracted with Ryan Homes to build...
Readers around the world can find a concise yet comprehensive summary of New Urbanism and its progress simply by clicking a website address at Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism. This up-to-date essay...
The Charrette Handbook: The Essential Guide for Accelerated, Collaborative Community Planning is scheduled to be made available August 1 by the National Charrette Institute (NCI) and the American Planning Association’s Planners Book Service. NCI...
Joseph Barnes is now director of architecture and design for Celebration Associates. Barnes is based in Hot Springs, Virginia, where that firm has taken on a major project at the rural end of the Transect. The firm bought the Virginia Hot Springs...
Howard Blackson of San Diego has joined PlaceMakers and is expected to help the organization expand the use of form-based codes in the West.
The national attention, and associated criticism, generated by work in the Gulf Coast region was one of many issues raised at the June Congress for the New Urbanism in Providence, Rhode Island. Other topics included certification of projects,...