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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.
Michael Medick, an architect and town planner formerly with Looney Ricks Kiss and CHK Architects and Planners (now Torti Gallas/CHK), has formed Medick + Associates in Baltimore. The firm offers architectural design and implementation services for...
The Community Building Program at the University of Miami (see January/February 2001 issue) has announced the 12 participants in its Knight fellowship program. The fellows meet six times during the year with community leaders, guest speakers, and...
Six years ago, the American Planning Association kicked off a major initiative aimed at helping states modernize planning law and manage change. APA staff decided to assemble a legislative guidebook for states and localities addressing issues from...
The mayor of Pittsburgh has dropped a controversial $480 million downtown redevelopment project called Market Place that would have gutted or razed 61 buildings and displaced up to 125 existing businesses. Mayor Tom Murphy has appointed a task force...
Category: public open space. Subcategory: plazas and squares.
Editor's Note. This page is the first of a series dedicated to detailing the techniques appearing in The Lexicon of the New Urbanism.
A square is a public space, defined by building...
In Pittsburgh, a public/private partnership is transforming an unusual brownfield site into the city’s largest new residential development in more than 50 years.
Building neighborhoods on abandoned industrial sites is no longer a novelty, but...
A group of foundations focusing on smart growth is undertaking a study of real estate finance cosponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). The Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, based in Miami, was founded in 1999...
The Flag House Courts redevelopment, a Hope VI project in East Baltimore, is one of four winners of the American Institute of Architects’ Honor Award for outstanding regional and urban design. Hope VI is HUD’s program to redevelop public housing....
Oklahoma’s first new urbanist development, the Village at Central Park, is now under construction six blocks from downtown Tulsa. The infill project includes 103 units in brownstone townhomes and loft homes, as well as eight three-story retail...
Leon Krier and Andres Duany are teaching a design studio at Yale University this semester. Students will travel to study the transects in 20 cities and document building types, frontages, and the use of buildings and open space. This information...
“... the New Urbanism draws life from a humanist tradition in civic art, along with an essentially classical idealism. And in stark contrast to the “architectural circles” for which [New York Times architectural critic] Herbert Muschamp speaks, the...
Temple University’s Center for Sustainable Communities recently received a $1.5-million federal grant. University officials hope academic neutrality will foster agreements between competing groups, while developers and environmentalists hope the...