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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.
CNU’s ninth Congress highlights regionalism and the environment.
While attendance was down slightly compared with last year’s Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the 1,100 people gathered in New York City saw ample evidence that the New Urbanism...
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...
The Gulch Neighborhood, a high-density mixed-use development Nashville, Tennessee. The $350 million plan, calling for 1,800 residential units and more than a million square feet of retail, was designed by Looney Ricks Kiss of Memphis.
The infill project Media Village combines senior housing, ground-floor retail, and subterranean public parking on a 3-acre block in downtown Burbank, California. Designed by Mark Gangi of Gangi Development, Media Village interacts with the street in...
American Village Properties has designed a site plan for Town Centre West, a 34-acre mixed-use development in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, Indiana. The greenfield development site is located in a northwest commercial corridor. The plan...
Cagan Crossings, a town center and apartment development in Orlando, Florida, has gained critical momentum over the last year. The second phase of the project has been completed and the 272 new apartments are 90 percent leased. A newly redesigned...
I’On, a 243-acre new urbanist development in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, was named the Best Community in the Charleston Area for the second year running by the Charleston Trident Home Builders Association.
US Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) of the House’s Livable Communities Taskforce and Wayne Gilchrist (R-MD) recently reintroduced legislation that would provide $50 million to states, regional programs, and tribal governments to assist in...