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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.
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.
Milton Grenfell, principal in Grenfell Architecture, has moved his practice from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington, DC. Grenfell is known for his advocacy of Classicism and criticism of Modernism.
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...
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
The Mississippi Renewal Forum provided one of the first opportunities to introduce an entire region to the SmartCode and the idea of Transect-based and form-based coding. In the weeks since the Forum ended, a number of officials along the Gulf Coast...
Transportation II. The pedestrian environment; frontages C. Dooryard & light court; forecourt; stoop
Of all the types of building frontages, the pattern known as dooryard and light court is the one demonstrating the greatest number of sophisticated variations. It was the model used in many neighborhoods, both elegant and modest, built during the...
Infill and redevelopment projects designed by new urbanists took most of the US EPA’s National Awards for Smart Growth achievement in 2005. The winner for overall excellence was the Denver Urban Renewal Authority for facilitating the redevelopment...