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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.
“Stop and stay stopped. It’s that simple.” That’s how America Walks president Ellen Vanderslice sums up Oregon’s new law requiring motorists to yield to pedestrians in intersections with or without traffic signals or crosswalks.
The law, which...
CNU member Linda Matthew is leading an effort to compile detailed information about new urbanist projects in a new CNU online database. This database will supplement New Urban News’ annual overview of projects. We need volunteers to interview...
After ten years of perseverance, Borough Council member Joyce Marin has succeeded in getting a streetscape improvement project carried out on Main Street in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Marin also backed the idea of starting the Emmaus Farmers’ Market in...
After a year of debate, the City of Southlake, Texas, approved the development of 115 townhouses in Southlake Town Square, a new urban town center outside of Fort Worth. The project has been highly touted for its architecture, successful retail...
cleaned-up brownfield site in Moncton, New Brunswick, is expected to become a 53-acre collection of more than 900 apartments, condominium units, detached houses, duplexes, and rowhouses in a setting offering what its planners describe as a “...
Between 1982 and 1997, developed land in the Portland, Maine, region grew by 108 percent while the population grew by just 17 percent. A 150-acre parcel in Scarborough, just south of Portland, is zoned for just 65 single houses — a number which is...
About 200 builders, developers, public officials, and architects attended a conference “Great Houses for Great Neighborhoods” cosponsored by the Seaside Institute and the Norfolk Redevelopment & Housing Authority in September. Attendance, which...
For CNU members, the annual Congress is a powerful experience. They get exposed to a range of successful new urbanist projects. They learn from leaders in the fields of urban planning, architecture, development and government. And they interact with...
Chicago-area CNU members are off to an early start on the 2004 Congress. CNU Board Member Jacky Grimshaw, Doug Farr, and Peter Skosey are chairing the CNU XII Local Host Committee. CNU’s Sandrine Milanello will coordinate the Chicago meeting, which...
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...