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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.
The Conservation Fund has issued a publication, Better Models for Commercial Development, subtitled Ideas for Improving the Design and Siting of Chain Stores and Franchises. The booklet “is designed to show how new commercial development can be made...
On any given day, more than half the non-drivers aged 65 and over stay home because their transportation choices are limited, says a new report from the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP). “Aging Americans: Stranded Without Options” warns...
Glenwood Park, the 28-acre new urban infill development of former Internet pioneer Charles Brewer, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. The project will include 425 homes, shops, and offices. Parkside Partners recently...
Baldwin Park a large new urban project in Orlando, Florida, won a National 2004 Building With Trees Award of Excellence from the National Arbor Day Foundation for saving many large old trees despite the need to build on the sites where they stood....
Students for the New Urbanism at the University of Minnesota sponsored a panel discussion featuring Charles Bohl, director of the University of Miami’s Knight Program in Community Building and author of Place Making. The mid-April program was...
In the following discussion of characteristic code issues with live-work units, three assumptions are made. The first is that the work component occurs on the ground floor only, directly accessible from a public face of the building. The second is...
Facing a worsening shortage of inexpensive housing, officials in San Diego are devising a plan aimed at spurring construction of tiny, single-room occupancy units known as SROs.
Susan Tinsky of the San Diego Housing Commission says development of...
The first town center in Denver’s 4,700-acre Stapleton development has opened on East 29th Avenue, with tenants that include a 58,000 sq. ft. King Soopers grocery store, a series of small shops and restaurants, and 34,000 square feet of offices.
A new study by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute shows that in cities with large rail transit systems, per-capita traffic fatalities are 36 percent lower, per-capita consumer transportation expenditures are 14 percent lower, and per-capita...
Architect Richard McLaughlin has created the N-vision Neighborhood Modeling System, which consists of a handbook and CD-ROM, plus a 1,000-piece “wood chip” set, enough to model a 40-acre mixed-use neighborhood. Additional wood chips — small wood-...
When it convenes in Chicago from June 24 to 27, the Twelfth Congress for the New Urbanism will convey both a respect for tradition and openness to debate and innovation.
Enriched by their connections to CNU’s host city — a storied metropolis...