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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 City of Greenville, South Carolina has a new master plan for the Haynie-Sirrine neighborhood, a predominantly African American community degraded by the conversion of the main thoroughfare into a six-lane highway in the 1950s. The master plan by...
A master plan for the Ocean View section of Norfolk, Virginia, was unveiled by architect Ray Gindroz of Urban Design Associates (UDA). The plan recommends the creation of a “village center” adjacent to the site of a new urban neighborhood soon to be...
Programs focusing on smart growth and the New Urbanism were launched at four universities in the past year. Most have stressed education; research and hands-on design are also on the agendas.
In Miami, a group of professionals from different...
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...
The transformation and densification of suburban business districts could reduce sprawl and traffic congestion and boost quality of life, according to the DC-based developers’ group. One official calls this the “logical next step” for smart growth...
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...
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.
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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...