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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.
Milt Rhodes has moved from Miami, Florida, to Raleigh, in his native North Carolina, where he is working part time on projects for Dover, Kohl & Partners, where he previously was employed. Rhodes, who has degrees in architecture, urban planning...
New Town Builders has more than 5,000 traditional neighborhood development (TND) units in the pipeline or under construction in Colorado, including houses in greenfield and grayfield communities, transit-oriented development (TOD), affordable...
Newland Communities LLC has agreed to build a traditional town center in its Clarksburg Town Center development in Montgomery County, Maryland, as part of a settlement that apparently ends a long-running controversy over whether the developer...
The patterns of alley geometry and alley-associated buildings, where they meet the block faces and surrounding streets, may be usefully adjusted in a variety of ways. It is necessary to understand standard configurations, but also how they may be...
A new high-density transit-oriented development in Rockville, Maryland, was compared in The Washington Post to the Piazza Campo dei Fiori in Rome. Rockville Town Square, now under construction, is surrounded by multistory buildings with cafes and...
Gulfport, Mississippi, Mayor Brent Warr, who energetically participated in the Mississippi Renewal Forum last October and who has supported new urbanist approaches to redevelopment, received an Urban Leadership Award from the Penn Institute for...
Edited by Jean ScottCNU Florida Chapter, 2005, 172 pp., paperback $21.n the Sunshine State, where the seeds of New Urbanism were first planted, a slew of developments and communities designed on new urban principles has grown up during the past few...
The Poland Public Library in Poland, Ohio, designed by Robert A. Mastriana of the 4M Company (see Sept. 2004 New Urban News), is one of 80 libraries in the US and Canada that will be featured in Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love. The $49...
After coordinating more than 85 charrettes for Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. in the past several years, Debra Hempel has joined the architectural, engineering, and consulting firm HDR. From an office in Tampa, Hempel will coordinate HDR’s design...
The Arnold Fund builds new urbanist projects in Georgia and eyes the ‘Katrina Cottage’ model.The Arnold Fund builds new urbanist projects in Georgia and eyes the ‘Katrina Cottage’ model.The Arnold Fund is taking the lead in developing two sizable...
The Peerless Development Group has begun converting a 40 percent vacant shopping mall in Forest Acres, South Carolina, into the core of a development that may eventually contain a network of streets and sidewalks, street-oriented retail, a restored...
Dan Camp was elected mayor of Starkville, Mississippi, a college town with 22,000 people, in June of 2005. In the last year, Camp has made progress fulfilling a campaign promise to keep the police station and city courthouse downtown. Camp ran for...