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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 group Students for the New Urbanism at the University of Georgia in Athens has drafted a plan for improvements at a local mobile home park. The design adds amenities such as a community building and small businesses and fits 20 more trailers...
Alex Dunser, former project director of Rosemary Beach in Florida, has founded Wolf TND Consulting LLC, a consulting firm specializing in the location, acquisition, entitlement, development, and marketing of traditional neighborhood developments.
CNU’s street guidebook for California suggests steps toward better highways.
Across the United States, activists and engineers have been figuring out how to turn urban stretches of state highways into civic amenities. CNU is joining the discussion...
In Mt Laurel, a TND near Birmingham, Alabama, preserving as many trees as possible is a top priority. “We are not here to rape the land, “ says developer Elton Stephens, “so unlike most developments in the area, we do no mass grading.” On each lot,...
The City Council in North Miami, Florida, has adopted a master plan for the redevelopment of the NE 6th Avenue corridor. A charrette led by the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council produced proposals for, among other things, narrowing the...
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Baltimore design firm Design Collective has won a competition to design mixed-use residential and retail buildings for a housing development in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. The firm was awarded a $100,000 prize and the right to negotiate...
The City of San Jose, California, has hired the Palladium Company to build retail, housing, and offices on five blocks in the city’s center. Palladium is the developer of the mixed-use CityPlace town center in West Palm Beach, Florida. The company’s...
A new fellowship for journalists reveals that the press is ready to deepen its coverage of urbanism and development.
Journalists interested in creating a sophisticated urban development beat are swarming to a new program at the University of...
Architecture and town planning firm Torti Gallas/CHK and national builder Beazer Homes are collaborating to bring the economics of production building to Hope VI public housing redevelopments in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. In Washington’s...
Los Angeles commuters can now see the first 750 apartment rise in the controversial Playa Vista project, but recent headlines have focused on developer Rob Maguire’s announcement that he has commissioned architect Frank Gehry to design at least four...
After the city has spurned several conventional project proposals, developers are now breaking ground on the first mixed-use development in the future town center.
The seeds were sown back in 1996, when the newly incorporated City of Wildwood,...