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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.
Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda brings together 12 planners, urban designers, and educators to examine smart growth and livable communities. The book is edited by Jonathan Barnett, an urban designer and a professor of the Practice of...
The Northeast Midwest Institute has published two new reports, Smart Growth and the Clean Air Act and Smart Growth and the Clean Water Act. Call the Institute at (202) 544-5200, or visit their website at www.nemw.org.
“Urbanity is not a design concept, but a notion of inclusiveness and diversity: rubbing shoulders with people of different ages, from different classes, from different backgrounds. ... Despite what architects profess, socialization depends on people...
Virginia project features new urbanist design principles and looks like another Hope VI housing program success.
6Just a few blocks from downtown and adjacent to I-264 in Portsmouth, Virginia, a new neighborhood of vibrantly colored,...
Michael Lamb and Richard McLaughlin, formerly with Town Planning Collaborative, have joined Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc., a Minneapolis-based architecture, engineering and planning firm. Lamb will be leading the new urban design and planning...
Following up on Principles for Inner City Neighborhood Design, published last year, CNU has released Strategies for Successful Infill Development, produced in cooperation with the Northeast-Midwest Institute, a policy think tank. The 130-page book...
A Circuit Court judge in Oregon has ruled that the controversial Ballot Measure 7 is unconstitutional. The measure, passed by Oregon voters last November, would require the state to compensate land owners for loss of property value due to planning...
Prince George’s Metro Center, a office complex of more than one million square feet in Hyatsville, Maryland, is about to add a mixed-use town center. Plans for University Town Center include up to 1,800 apartments, 250,000 square feet of retail,...
By John A. Dutton Skira Architecture Library, Milano 2000. 223 pp., Softcover: $29.95. Just a cursory glance at this book reveals that John Dutton has put together a worthy successor to Peter Katz’ seminal The New Urbanism, published seven...
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck will be released in paperback on April 16. $18.
As ever larger schools on the urban fringe replace historic institutions, a new report identifies public policy changes needed to save neighborhood schools.
Why is only one in eight children walking or bicycling to school these days? Why do...
“The mistake cities get caught in is having to build a ‘good business climate.’ What they have to do is build a people climate.”
—Richard Florida, professor of economic development at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, quoted in The...