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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 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...
New urbanist principles inform a growing number of large-scale planning efforts.
For the past 10 years, the New Urbanism has been primarily defined by
individual projects, built in reaction to the reigning auto-oriented, single-use planning...
The University of Maryland has named Gerrit Knaap, a nationally-recognized scholar on the economics and politics of land-use planning, to serve as director of research for the university’s new National Center for Smart Growth Research, Education...
Partners for a Livable Western New York, based in Buffalo, has about 60 members, including many who belong to the Congress for the New Urbanism. The group consists mainly of professionals — i.e., architects, planners, traffic engineers, attorneys,...
A four-screen theater in the town center of Southern Village is running movies every Friday and Saturday night on the town green. Moviegoers bring blankets and chairs and are charged three dollars. The event has been very popular and adds energy to...
Narrow streets are not only safer and more pedestrian-friendly, they also cost less. According to recent calculations by a Utah consultant, the cost of resurfacing a 24 ft. road with two inches of asphalt is $45,619 per linear mile. The cost...
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New Urban Communities of Del Ray is developing BotAnica/Sea Plum in Jupiter, Florida, the company’s first neighborhood-scale project. This 143-acre TND, designed by Cotleur-Hearing, will include 360 apartments, 138 single family homes, 132 townhomes...
The majority of transit-oriented developments (TODs) are built adjacent to rail lines, but the Twin Creeks project under construction in Central Point in southwestern Oregon, is part of an effort to boost regional bus service. Comprised of 1,500...
In California, ground has been broken for the Hercules Waterfront District, the first new urbanist development project in the San Francisco Bay Area city, which last year adopted a regulating plan and a typological code created by Dover Kohl &...
Despite numerous setbacks, Pulte Home Corp. is not giving up on Salamanca, the 160-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Dade County, Florida. The project, the nation’s largest homebuilder’s first attempt at TND and the first test of...
Fairfax County, Virginia, supervisors approved a $100 million transit-oriented development on 58 acres at the Huntington Metro Station, the first project under the county’s new “smart growth” measure. The developers plan to build a combination of...