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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.
Some municipalities in hot climates, such as Miami, are replacing that symbol of tropical paradise — the palm tree — with other, leafier trees. The objective is to provide a tree canopy that will shade the sidewalks and make pedestrians more...
Robert Sitkowski has moved from Chicago back to the Robinson & Cole law firm in Hartford, where he is focusing on land-use law for developers, land owners, municipalities, and advocacy groups and on legal aspects of Smart Growth and New Urbanism.
Architect Victor Deupi has taken a leave of absence from teaching at the University of Notre Dame’s architecture school to become Arthur Ross Director of Education at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America in New York.
The Florida Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism has released a new edition of Guidebook to New Urbanism in Florida. A review of this publication will be in the June 2006 issue. See www.cnuflorida.org.
The bulk of this year’s Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism honor projects on redeveloped sites — contradicting the persistent notion that New Urbanism is mainly about building on virgin land at the suburban fringe.
Other Mississippi communities move forward with form-based codes and plans.
By the American Planning AssociationJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006, 736 pp., hardcover $199.
The SmartCode & Manual, which is having such a significant impact on redevelopment of the Gulf Coast, is now in hard copy print for the first time — published by New Urban Publications, publisher of New Urban News.
The SmartCode & Manual is...
The Katrina Cottage, a 308 sq. ft. prototype dwelling designed by Marianne Cusato of New York, has received rave reviews since being displayed in mid-January at the International Builders’ Show in Orlando.
Adelegation of new urbanists and Mississippians returned from Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, in mid-January with a promise that the discount retailer would participate in a charrette writing a SmartCode plan for a section of Pass...
Automobile trips generated by high-density, infill developments served by transit may be up to 90 percent lower than industry standards would suggest, according to experts at Nelson/Nygaard in San Francisco. Nelson/Nygaard developed software that...
Allan Greenberg will receive the fourth annual Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Greenberg, who has architectural offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Greenwich,...