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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.
Researchers at the University of Washington have won $5.2 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to create UrbanSim, a software program capable of forecasting the effects of today’s housing, land-use, and transportation decisions 25...
The Century Theater Block, the first phase of the redevelopment of downtown Albuquerque (see July/August 2001 New Urban News) is now open for business. “The movie theater and the retail establishments are all in front of projections,” says Chris...
Harrison Rue has been named executive director of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization in Virginia. Rue was working on new urban planning issues in Hawaii for several years, and was formerly the director of the Citizen...
New membership rates! Renewing members, take note — CNU’s membership rates have changed. Our individual membership is now $175. We have added an organizational membership rate, in which three people at a firm, agency, or other organization can join...
A change in political leadership may mean a delay in the plans for a new urban extension of Port Wentworth, Georgia (see October/November 2000 New Urban News). Principal Planner Denise Grabowski says the newly elected mayor has expressed...
The City of Baltimore, Maryland, is moving forward with its plans to revitalize a 100-block area north of Johns Hopkins University. A biotechnology district, which could contain up to 4,000 jobs, would be surrounded by 1,000 units of new and...
Acting on the recommendations of the Smart Growth Taskforce he formed last year, Kentucky Governor Paul Patton (D) has announced a package of legislation to promote orderly growth statewide. The legislation does not attempt to mandate zoning in the...
Discussions of the connections between New Urbanism and the environment, and the relationships between new urbanists and environmentalists, are occurring with increasing frequency. At this past summer's Congress for the New Urbanism, on various...
New governor reverses course — fires planners one week, implements new cabinet-level program the next.
Newly elected New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey laid off virtually the entire staff of the Office of State Planning as part of a larger cost-...
• Purpose: to allow the optional development and redevelopment of land consistent with TND principles
• The ordinance is a guide and is not intended to be adopted as is.
• Asks communities to analyze local, historic development patterns to provide...
The Canadian research organization the Victoria Transport Policy Institute offers an on-line transportation demand management (TDM) encyclopedia with more than 90 chapters on such issues as strategies for energy conservation and emmission reduction...
The city council in the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb of Kirkwood has approved the master plan for Station Plaza, a 7-acre, mixed-use development with 206 apartments, 40,000 square feet of retail and a freestanding office building. The project is...