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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 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...
Steve Schukraft, who led the new urbanist team in Moss Point, Mississippi, beginning with the Mississippi Renewal Forum last October, has left HOK Planning Group in Washington, DC, to direct the Planning & Urban Design Studio of HDR in Tampa,...
The City of Hercules, California, authorized its redevelopment agency in late May to use the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. rather than let the retail chain build a superstore on the site. The property lies...
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,...
Bob Regan, author of The Steps of Pittsburgh (reviewed in the June 2004 New Urban News), has written a companion book, The Bridges of Pittsburgh, published by The Local History Company in Pittsburgh. Like the earlier volume, the new 182-page...