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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 first major juried awards focusing solely on new urbanist design demonstrate the breadth of the trend.
No Seasides or Celebrations are to be found among the winners of the first
annual Charter Awards, announced by the Congress for the New...
Professor Victor Deupi’s fourth-year architecture students at Notre Dame University recently participated in a home design competition for I’On, a 243-acre TND in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Pella Windows Corporation provided the $1000 prize...
New interactive site provides a wealth of information.
The CNU website, CNU.org, went through a transformation at the end of
April. It now has a new look and contains many times more information than ever before. The new site is designed to...
Houston’s Main Street is getting a face-lift, to create a transit-oriented environment in preparation for coming light rail. In 1999, Mayor Lee Brown created the Main Street Coalition, a public/private partnership, for the purpose of transforming...
Avalon at Arlington Square, which opened its doors this January in Arlington, Virginia, is a new urbanist take on the rental apartment community. Master planned by Torti Gallas/CHK of Silver Spring, Maryland, (in collaboration with SKG Architects...
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...
Category: public open space. Subcategory: plazas and squares.
Subsequent pages will cover the urban circle and the rotary.
A circus is a regular, concavely curved urban open space; a circular variant of the urban square. Circuses are the...
A new neighborhood in Breckenridge, Colorado, addresses the need for affordable homes for year-round residents and overcomes the difficulties of building a traditional neighborhood at 9,500 feet.
Like many other ski resorts in the Rocky Mountains...
“New Urbanism is not a social service program. A walkable neighborhood will not provide day care and affordable health care for impoverished families, or counseling for substance abusers, or community policing to help control crime. ... New Urbanism...
A group of Canadian urban designers from Toronto has organized the Urban Design Group, associated with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. Some participants are members of CNU, others are sympathizers; all apply new urbanist principles in...