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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.
Designs from less than 300 square feet on up aim to reinforce South Mississippi’s character.
The Gulf Coast of Mississippi needs to gird itself against a flood of mass-produced houses that have little in common with the homes built in the region...
By Jonathan Levine RFF Press, 2005, 223 pp., paperback $26.95Many new urbanists agree that the primary barrier to developing more compact, mixed-use, transit-oriented communities is zoning. Yet new urbanists face an uphill battle to change codes —...
Prince Charles accepted the National Building Museum’s Vincent Scully Prize Nov. 3 in Washington, DC, where he declared his admiration for “traditional urbanism.” Scully, the longtime Yale professor and architectural historian, presented the award...
Daniel Cary, who went from ecologist in the Everglades to new urbanist planner in West Palm Beach, Florida, and elsewhere, received the Seaside Prize Oct. 14 at a ceremony in Seaside, Florida.
The Congress for the New Urbanism is asking for Charter Award entries. Submissions are due by January 31. See www.cnu.org for more details. u
An urban renovator advocates New Urbanism, but the “model project” leaves some cold.
Poor New Orleans. A city full of character, and characters, it’s had continual trouble marshaling a response since Hurricane Katrina.
In mid-November the...
For the first time, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is proposing building emergency shelters in a neighborhood form that could evolve into permanent settlements over the years. Experience with Hurricane Andrew shows that...
By Terry J. Lassar and Douglas R. PorterUrban Land Institute, 2004, 150 pp., paperback $34.95.
Sundt Construction will work with architect Adam Weinstein of Rio Development Company on the Monier Building, the first building to be erected in the Mercado District of Rio Nuevo, a redevelopment project in downtown Tucson. The building, containing...
Twelve mid-career professionals from a variety of disciplines have been awarded fellowships for 2005-06 in the Knight Program in Community Building, based at the University of Miami School of Architecture. In early November the group convened for...
Michael Mehaffy is involved in launching a research center on “generative coding” with Christopher Alexander, in association with the Martin Centre at Cambridge University in England. Mehaffy will serve as managing director of the Centre for...
The Cornerstone town center project, which was intended to reinvigorate part of a blighted commercial strip in Parma Heights, Ohio, will likely be stripped of every aspect of New Urbanism. The McGill Property Group of Solon, Ohio, has offered to buy...