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.
The 209-unit Mirasol apartments are under construction adjacent to downtown Celebration near Orlando, Florida. The units average 1,700 square feet and will rent from $900 to $1,900. The project increases the density downtown, and raises the number...
One of the nation’s largest new urban brownfield projects, Mission Bay in San Francisco, is facing difficulties with the recession and collapse of the office market in the Bay area, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Catellus Corp. has stopped...
In Provo, Utah, The Village at Riverwoods was recognized with the Envision Utah Governor’s Quality Growth Award for Grand Achievement in Planning and Implementation. The 145-unit development of townhomes, flats, and live/work lofts will be completed...
BotAnica/Sea Plum, two projects designed together as a single new urban neighborhood, received approval recently from the Town of Jupiter, Florida. The 143-acre neighborhood has a total of 526 units and 55,000 square feet of retail. The projects are...
Columnist Neil Peirce writes that labor unions have begun lending support to the national smart growth agenda.
The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a web site with information about smart growth policies, funding sources, networking opportunities, technical tools and resources. See www.epa.gov/smartgrowth.
Peter Swift of Swift and Associates has released a research paper on “AASHTO and the Parisian Boulevard.” The paper examines the mandates of the AASHTO “Green Book” regarding location of arterials, physical design standards, and public transit, and...
A blighted Indianapolis neighborhood gets another chance with the help of federal funds and new urban design guidelines.
The fate of the Fall Creek neighborhood on Indianapolis’ near north side mirrors that of countless urban neighborhoods in the...
The annual report on real estate investment trends, Emerging Trends in Real Estate, is once more a benefit of CNU membership. This year, we are mailing it to all members except for associate members, at the beginning of the year, rather than waiting...
The number of allies grow, but the principles remain the same.
The support for the New Urbanism and smart growth gets wider all the time.
To the list that includes many environmental groups, governors, mayors, planners, transit advocates, and...
“The bang of the screen door in front of the corner store” is a sound now heard in Lakelands, a neotradi-tional development in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to Marilyn Greene, of Greene’s Market. Greene, who has an MBA in marketing, is co-owner...
Harborside, a 120-acre neighborhood designed by DPZ, is underway in Northeast Richland, near Columbia, South Carolina. Harborside forms a town center to the sprawling, 1,679-acre Lake Carolina master-planned community, which consists of gated pods...