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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.
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...
The redevelopment of a naval base may become the first phase of a revitalization of 3,000 acres in the community of North Charleston, South Carolina. The city intends to buy 350 acres from the Charleston Naval Base Redevelopment Authority and then...
Three hundred units of rental housing and about 125 for-sale homes have been completed and occupied in NewHolly, a Hope VI redevelopment in Southeast Seattle. The new mixed-income neighborhood replaces Holly Park, a functionally obsolete and unsafe...
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...
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...
A small ski resort town wants to guide growth and calls in expertise from the outside.
This past February, CNU Director of Advisory Services James M. Moore and
a team of CNU members traveled to California's Sierra Nevada mountains to show how...
Home sales are brisk in Belmont Greene, a traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Loudoun County, Virginia. Master developer Waterford Development reports that 50 homes have been sold before the first model homes open this spring, and 187...
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.