Archives
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.
Eleven new urbanists in the Washington, DC, area, led by Lee Sobel of the US Environmental Protection Agency with assistance from Dhiru Thadani of Ayers/Saint/Gross, gathered in late August for a discussion of whether to form a local organization —...
Save the date for CNU XII, the Twelfth Congress for the New Urbanism, to be held at the historic Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago, June 24-27, 2004.
Preparations for CNU’s 2004 Charter Awards program are underway. Ellen Dunham-Jones, director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will be this year’s jury chair. Watch for announcements in the mail in late November...
The Community Action Network, a citizens group in East Greenbush, New York, has been vigorously advocating adoption of a new urban master plan that would calm traffic on the Columbia Turnpike (Route 9 and 20) southeast of Albany.
Neopolis Development LLC in Jackson, Mississippi, is planning to build a 260-acre traditional neighborhood development with a name no one is likely to forget: the Town of Lost Rabbit. In late July Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.
After sponsoring a program to identify and honor the nation’s best HOPE VI public housing redevelopment projects, the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) declined to publicize the awards, which were administered by the Congress...
The Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, headed by Benjamin Starrett, has spun off from the Collins Center for Public Policy. The newly independent 501(c)3 organization is based in Coral Gables, Florida, and has a website at...
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CNU’s Task Forces are getting an infusion of new energy, ideas, and leadership. Paul Crawford joins Rick Bernhardt as co-chair of the Planners Task Force. Former Transportation Task Force chair G.B. Arrington is now serving as the chair of the Task...
The Village at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a new urban community with a lot of promise, is going through “restructuring” after one of the development partners died, according to codeveloper John Hawley. As a result, the project has slowed...
The previous Technical Page discussed the garage with respect to its use as park-
ing, while arguing that its full potential lay as the principal domestic multi-use space. This consideration is not complete without exploration of the other...
Researchers funded by Smart Growth America and the Surface Transportation Policy Project released a study in September which strengthened the case that conventional suburban development leads to sedentary lifestyles and societal health problems....