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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.
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...
Shaker Heights, Ohio, is considering an offer by developer Robert Stark to redevelop a sprawling intersection with two strip malls into a town center. A plan for the intersection of Warrensville Center Road and Van Aken Boulevard was created by...
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...
A growing number of cities are introducing illustrated zoning guides that ordinary citizens can readily
Laurie Volk of Zimmerman/Volk Associates in Clinton, New Jersey, has joined the board of directors of the Remaking Cities Institute.
Landscape architect Douglas Duany went to Kurdish Iraq in March to work with town planner and engineer Peter Swift, who is working with an American firm, Mid Atlantic Enterprises, that is carrying out development projects.
Todd Litman, executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in British Columbia, wrote a new book from Planners Press, Parking Management Best Practices. The 312-page, $69.95 paperback from the American Planning Association tells how...
New Mexico state planner Ken Hughes is staffing Gov. Bill Richardson’s Livability Task Force, which this spring will begin establishing the criteria for transit-oriented development at each station of the Albuquerque area’s commuter rail service....
Vulnerable neighborhoods like those in Biloxi, on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, need buildings that are “able to take a swim every 30 years,” architect Stefanos Polyzoides said last October during the Mississippi Renewal Forum. Some disagreed. They...