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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.
Innovative regional programs in Georgia and California use DOT funds to leverage new urbanist planning and development.
In the Atlanta region, $350 million is slated to be spent on transportation improvements linked to smart growth projects in...
Jackie Benson of TND Planning and Marketing in Atlanta has opened an office in Rosemary Beach, Florida. She works as a consultant to TND developers and builders on marketing, sales, and builder programs.
Charles Brewer, the founder and former CEO of internet service provider Mindspring Enterprises, has started Green Street Properties, an Atlanta-based development company that will focus on new urbanist infill projects. Brewer’s partners are...
Ground has broken on the Downtown/Fairgrounds Redevelopment in Tupelo, Mississippi. The project, under development by Henry Turley, the Harbor Town developer, extends the city’s downtown street grid. This project packs a lot into a small space: a...
Longleaf, a TND in New Port Richey (near Tampa), Florida, sold 67 homes in the first 11 months, exceeding expectations of 50 homes in year one. Homes include a variety of single houses, townhouses, and stand-alone live/work units. Prices range from...
Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices is a discussion paper prepared for the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and PolicyLink and written by Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard. The...
A 10,000 sq. ft., two-story mixed-use building has replaced an abandoned gas station at the gateway to historic Beaufort, South Carolina. Offices and retail stores face the street, while five loft apartments occupy the second floor of the building,...
Urban Parks Institute, a program of Project for Public Spaces, has developed the website http://urbanparks.org/ to provide information and resources on revitalizing urban public spaces.
Category: public open space. Subcategory: plazas and squares.
Rotary, circle, and circus identify urban spatial elements associated with circular traffic movement. The first tends to occur towards the Rural end of the Transect, the last towards...
Work will soon begin on a long-term, $193-million, public-private initiative to revitalize the depressed Greenlaw-Manassas area of Memphis. A plan for the 160-block area north of the central business district, now called Uptown Memphis, was created...
The first Australian and New Zealand New Urbanism Congress held in Melbourne in late April attracted over 370 participants from six countries. The format included a two-day main “overview” congress, followed by local project tours and a two-day...
The Denver area’s first mall redevelopment is already well underway in the City of Englewood. Cinderella City, once one of the region’s premier malls, has been torn down to give way to CityCenter Englewood, a transit-oriented, walkable, mixed-use...