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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.
Millennium Partners expects to start building a mixed-use development in August at the Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa County, California. Plans have changed greatly during 14 years of contention over what should be...
Ventura, California, where new urbanist Rick Cole became city manager in early 2004, has now hired Ann Daigle as urban development and planning manager. Daigle is a founding principal of PlaceMakers, an urban design firm that focuses on New Urbanism...
Brian O’Looney of Torti Gallas & Partners took issue with an article in the March issue of New Urban News, stating that a proposed plan in Chico would, “for the first time in the US,” embed a professional baseball stadium into the urban fabric...
John Norquist, chief executive officer of CNU, submitted a “friend of the court” brief to the US Supreme Court, arguing that governments do not need the power of eminent domain to carry out economic development projects. Writing as an individual...
The City of Miramar, Florida, approved final agreements necessary for Rockefeller Group Development Corporation and Kimco Developers to begin construction of the private development phase of the 54-acre Miramar Town Center. Planned by Torti Gallas...
By William Morgan Harry N. Abrams, 2004, 424 pp., hardcover $40.
The Vermont Forum on Sprawl has issued a four-page color publication on the Vermont Neighborhoods Project, showing how new housing can be inserted gracefully into three Vermont communities: Shoreham, Middlebury, and Vergennes. The plans reflect...
In Drachten and other small communities in northern Holland, traffic engineer Hans Monderman is stirring debate by eliminating many of the customary elements of streets and roads, such as traffic lights, speed limit signs, and pavement markings. “...
McCaffery Interests, which built the highly successful Market Common, Clarendon transit-oriented, mixed-use project in Arlington, Virginia, has another project in the works of the same name. Market Common in Myrtle Beach is described as an “urban...
The East Beach project along Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia, is attracting homebuyers to a section of the city that used to be so dangerous that cab drivers and pizza deliverers refused to go there. “Forty-five to fifty houses are under...
A credit line on page 14 of the January 2005 issue incorrectly identified the source of a redevelopment plan in South Euclid, Ohio. It should have stated Cupkovic Architects.
Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council (TCRPC) in Stuart, Florida, has sponsored approximately 90 new urban design charrettes in the last 17 years, far outdistancing any other public agency. Among the 537 regional planning councils in the US,...