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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.
With a $1.1-million, three-year challenge grant in hand, the University of Miami School of Architecture has set its sights on continuing the Knight Program in Community Building for three more years and on gaining new donors to support it. Charles C...
Wal-Mart is proposing to build a 40,000 sq. ft. Neighborhood Market in Highlands Garden Village in Denver, the first such store in a new urban community. The proposal has stirred up controversy for developers Charles Perry and Jonathan Rose, who are...
On a 100-by-100-foot lot in Hoboken, New Jersey, stands a parking garage that’s only slightly taller than a four-story rowhouse, yet which holds 324 vehicles — more than three times the number that would fit into a conventional parking ramp of that...
Bill Dennis, director of the Albuquerque office of Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, is leaving the firm April 1 to start his own Albuquerque-based urban design consulting firm, B. Dennis Town & Building Design. Its website will...
Want images that show how communities can be designed for walking and bicycling? The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has teamed up with Walkable Communities Inc. and the Institute of Transportation Engineers...
CNU welcomes Payton Chung to its Chicago headquarters staff. Payton is the main contact for membership, order, and reference inquiries; he also coordinates technology and special projects for the office. Originally from North Carolina, Payton...
The Bixby Company announced that ground has broken on the Hercules Waterfront, a 21-acre mixed-use town center that will form the heart of a new urban town in Hercules, California. The initial phase will include 14 live/work houses, each three...
Madison, Wisconsin, has adopted an ordinance that requires developers of projects of 10 or more housing units to set aside 15 percent of the units for people who earn less than the Dane County median income. In exchange for providing the affordable...
The Northshore Town Center, described as a 141-acre new urban development near Knoxville, Tennessee, is slated to break ground soon. The James Doran Company is planning 120 detached houses, 450 apartments, 150 townhouses, shops, a 20-screen movie...
Westhaven, a new urban project in the very early stages of construction near Nashville, Tennessee, appears to have strong momentum, according to an article in the Tennessean newspaper. One hundred thirty homes were sold as of February in the 1,540-...
Surrey, British Columbia, has adopted a plan that requires small developers to cooperate in creating neighborhoods that are walkable, connected to transit, close to stores and services, and environmentally benign.
The city, working with Patrick...
Authentic Development Patterns for Small Towns and Rural Areas By Christopher J. Duerksen and James van Hemert American Planning Association, 2003, 248 pp., paperback. $59.95. “The Old West is rapidly giving way to a New West that bears...