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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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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