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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.
The National Main Street Center has set October 31, 2002, as the entry deadline for its Great American Main Street Awards and Main Street Leadership Awards. Both awards recognize exceptional accomplishments in revitalizing historic and traditional...
Four three-story buildings with housing in their upper floors and retail or office space at ground level are under construction facing the square in Haile Village Center, a widely admired new urban development in Gainesville, Florida. Those and 13...
Speed humps are beginning to face resistance from motorists, The Christian Science Monitor reports. The flat-topped traffic-calming devices, less abrupt than speed bumps, generally succeed in forcing drivers to slow down – at least briefly. Four...
III. The court and courtyard
Category: semipublic space
The passage and the forecourt, discussed in earlier issues of the Technical Page, are movement spaces linking the public realm of the street with the semipublic realm of an interior entry...
Vehicular accidents overall declined 39 percent. Accidents resulting in injuries fell 76 percent. Accidents resulting in death or incapacitating injury plunged 90 percent.
Laurence Qamar, formerly a principal and lead designer with Lennertz Coyle & Associates, has started his own architecture and town planning consulting practice in Portland, Oregon.
Lawyers unite: A group of CNU member attorneys met at CNU X, and they are continuing their communication via e-mail. To join their e-mail list, write to cnu-attorneys-subscribe@topica.com. CNU staff will confirm your membership status and activate...
Bay Area Rapid Transit entered a partnership with the City of Richmond, California, and a private developer to create a $100 million transit-oriented neighborhood. The Richmond Transit Village, planned by Calthorpe Associates, will consist of 231...
Millennium Place, a downtown Boston mixed-use project that won an award at CNU X, earned praise in the Boston Globe this summer because, according to architecture critic Robert Campbell, “It understands that city life is street life.” In a July 14...
The Sustainable Buildings Industry Council has developed a guidebook for homebuilders titled Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the demand for low-energy, resource-efficient homes. Contact: (202) 628-7400 or see www.sbicouncil.org.
The organizational meeting of the Seaside Pienza Society for Town Building and Land Stewardship took place in July in Pienza, Italy. The mission of the organization is to explore “how beautiful agricultural lands can be saved from sprawl and how...
California has many excellent examples of new urban infill, yet until recently has lacked examples of neighborhood-scale projects, especially in the suburbs.
Through the 1990s in the Golden State, New Urbanism has influenced the design of many...