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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.
People on foot may benefit as the Transect is applied to street design.
Nelson/Nygaard Associates of San Francisco is developing “performance measures” that may help overcome an entrenched problem — the refusal of transportation engineers to pay...
By Anthony FlintThe Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 312 pp., hardcover $24.95.
Newburgh, New York, has chosen Leyland Alliance LLC to be master developer of 30 acres on the Hudson River waterfront, 55 miles north of New York. Leyland’s president, Steve Maun, said the firm will engage officials and citizens of the 28,000-person...
California State Treasurer Philip Angelides, who developed Laguna West, a dozen miles south of downtown Sacramento, won the Democratic nomination for governor
Earlier this year EPA released a series of long-awaited publications on water resources and development patterns (see the March 2006 New Urban News). A review of one of those publications, Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density Development,...
Discussion at CNU XIV’s closing session affirms membership’s respect for the Charter
After a one-year hiatus, the subject of supplementing the Charter of the New Urbanism was back on the program at the Congress in Providence.
Scott Polikov of Gateway Planning Group in Austin, Texas, is joining the board of directors of the National Civic League. He was involved in producing a master plan and form-based code for transit-oriented development in the core of a 2,000-acre...
Despite their country’s colder climate, Canadians are three times as likely as Americans to hop on a bicycle to go to work. Even in the frigid Yukon Territory, more than twice the percentage of the population can be seen biking to work as in...
New urban development must make case at state high court.I’On, a lauded traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, faces continued opposition from town officials. The latest hurdle for the 243-acre, 759-unit...
The City of Miami, Florida, is working with Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ) of Miami on a complete overhaul of its zoning code. The new code will be a modified version of the SmartCode. The city’s effort is called Miami 21. In a parallel effort, the city...
For workers driving to their jobs, Atlanta is America’s most expensive metropolitan area, at least as measured by the cost of gasoline, says a study by Sperling’s Best Places. Because of long distances between home and work and the region’s serious...
Roughly 90 percent of Oregon’s 241 cities have changed their laws to limit cul-de-sacs, The Wall Street Journal reported June 2. In an article on efforts throughout the US to discourage cul-de-sacs, the Journal said “some traffic experts say the...