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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.
Jaime Correa, formerly of Correa Valle Valle and the Knight Professor of Community Building at the University of Miami, has formed a new architectural and town design firm, Jaime Correa and Associates. The new firm is currently working on three...
In addition to offering engaging speakers, lively debates, and
abundant opportunities for new urbanists to learn from each other, the Twelfth Congress for the New Urbanism in June distinguished itself as the largest Congress ever, drawing 1,370...
Robert Orr & Associates is also designing a proposed mixed-use redevelopment along the Quinnipiac River in the Fair Haven Heights section of New Haven for an investment group that includes Joel Schiavone, his daughter Allyx Schiavone, and...
In greater New York, suburban development no longer outcompetes development in the urban core. In a 31-county region centered on New York City, the urban core began in the mid-1990s to gain residents and jobs at the same rate as the periphery,...
Developer New Urban Communities looks to South Miami and the Chicago area next.
Along-dormant section of Delray Beach, Florida, is begin-ning to revive, thanks in part to a townhouse, retail, office, and loft project organized by New Urban...
Wisconsin project balances need for anchor store with sensitivity of impact.
New urbanists are continually hon-ing their strategies for how to make mixed-use town centers work. A great example is Middleton Hills, a traditional neighborhood...
By John Zukowsky and Martha Thorne Rizzoli and The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004, 240 pp., $65. Chicagoans seem transfixed by their city’s role in American architecture. The reason is simple: from the late 19th century to the 1960s, native or...
Pittsburghers are up in arms over a proposal to stop spending municipal funds to repair the hundreds of stairs that climb the city’s hills. In The Steps of Pittsburgh (reviewed in the June 2004 New Urban News), author Bob Regan reports that the 2002...
The following letter from CNU Board Chair Hank Dittmar is adapted from his opening address at CNU XII in Chicago.
It was especially gratifying to be part of CNU XXII in Chicago.
New urbanists have designed mixed-use office districts and retrofitted suburban office parks by adding walkable town centers. The transformation of an existing suburban office park into a mixed-use urban workplace district has never been attempted,...
The design of every housing unit must consider both its
living and its working functions.
All dwellings are intrinsically the stage for domestic work, including such routine tasks as cooking, laundering, and maintenance.
One of the challenges for urbanists is how to prevent ballparks from becoming enormous. “Most of the traditional ballparks were on sites of no more than eight to 10 acres,” says Kevin Klinkenberg, a principal in 180 Degree Design Studio in Kansas...