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.
According to Reshaping Metropolitan America, about half of all nonresidential structures in the US will be “ripe for redevelopment” in 2030.
The New York Times published a fascinating piece on a billionaire's investment in a two-square-mile area of downtown Detroit. My guess is that Dan Gilbert, worth $3.5 billion, will be a lot richer in a few years as a result of his massive and...
In the March 2013 issue we reviewed Arthur C. Nelson’s book, Reshaping Metropolitan America, but some of the numbers in the book are worth further consideration and analysis.
The Alabama city is poised for a new round of growth with construction of an Airbus factory, guided by a plan and code.
Master plan gives the city clear vision; Helps spur redevelopment at a torrid pace.
The three projects — in Richardson and Fort Worth, Texas, and Clovis, New Mexico — profiled in the accompanying article are all new, greenfield developments on a neighborhood scale.
Much of the future built environment will be determined by how commercial sites are developed.
Yet many transit sheds in poorer parts of cities and in auto-oriented suburbs underperformed their regions from 2006 to 2011. Neighborhoods served by transit are divided between those that are prospering and those that are not.
Every year, CNU selects innovative thinkers on key topics to headline the Congress’ plenary sessions. This year’s speakers are looking deeply at the challenge of creating a “Living Community.”
New urbanism has reached the Great White North: a group of architects and planners in Ontario are close to reaching the fifty-member requirement to become an official CNU chapter.
The US is sitting on vast pools of demand due to demographic changes, including a desire for walkable communities, and that's the key to prosperity in the 21st Century, Patrick Doherty writes.