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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.
II. The rural laneway
Category: Circulation
Subcategory: Thoroughfare types
II. The rural laneway
Category: Circulation
Subcategory: Thoroughfare types
The laneway is found towards the
other end of the Transect from its city cousin, the...
The real estate investment trust announces a shift back to focusing on conventional suburban retail properties, citing the greater risks and need for patience inherent in urban, mixed-use projects.
Under the leadership of chief ex-
ecutive...
The Knight Program in Community Building at the University of Miami has chosen its 2002 roster of fellows.
Staffing at the CNU office is going through a major transition. Andy Shafer, who was CNU’s second employee, is now working independently. CNU thanks him gratefully for his seven years handling CNU’s finances, visual identity, and day-to- day...
SMARTRAQ (Strategies for Metropolitan Atlanta’s Regional Transportation and Air Quality), a five-year, $4.3-million investigation into the links between land use, transportation policy, air quality, and public health, has completed its first phase,...
Active Living by Design, a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore the links between health and community design, is moving its national program office to the town center in Southern Village, a new urban community in Chapel...
The Miami Congress will turn the spotlight on the role the New Urbanism can play in the transformation of suburbs into towns.
New membership rates! Renewing members, take note — CNU’s membership rates have changed. Our individual membership is...
Coffee Creek, a new urban neighborhood in Chesterton, Indiana, is beginning to gather some construction momentum, nearly four years after the project broke ground. The 640-acre development now has two apartment buildings complete and more underway....
Realen Properties has proposed a redevelopment of the Garden State Park racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, with a design by the Princeton office of Looney Ricks Kiss (LRK). The $500-million project would include 1,100 housing units, over 1...
New federal legislation to clean up industrial “brownfield” sites, mainly in cities, represents a big step forward, according to columnist Neal Peirce. “The biggest breakthrough isn’t the increased federal money (now up to $250 million a year) in...
I. The rear alley
Category: Circulation
Subcategory: Thoroughfare types
The practice of having different ways into buildings for different kinds of activities is age-old. Consistent provision of service-ways within an overall urban plan,...
An innovative design to save the Stone Pony — an early Bruce Springsteen venue — is a key part of a massive revitalization effort for Asbury Park, New Jersey. If Hollywood ever decides to create a TV series featuring new urbanists, Asbury Park...