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.
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...
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....
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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Increasingly embraced by mainstream business groups such as the Urban Land
Institute, CNU now has an endorsement from one of the staunchest institutions of the political right as well. This summer, the National Review, founded by William F....
Northwest Landing, a new urban community in Dupont, Washington, is getting a town center, called Dupont Station, this year to serve its 4,000 residents. Master planned by Calthorpe Associates, Northwest Landing opened at the end of 1994. Residents...
Toronto’s Regent Park, one of the oldest and largest public housing projects in Canada, is about to be transformed into what urban planning consultant Ken Greenberg calls “a real urban neighborhood, dense and active, and fully integrated into the...
Santana Row, the large-scale, mixed-use urban center that suffered heavy fire damage just prior to opening in 2002, has stabilized its finances. Developer Federal Realty Investment Trust reports that first-phase earnings are a steady five percent,...
A study by a University of Minnesota researcher adds to the growing evidence that urban places reduce automobile use. The study looked at the travel patterns of households in the Seattle area that moved from urban to suburban locations (defined...