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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 host of mixed-use buildings are under construction in the Los Angeles area, and this trend is expected to more than double the number of residential units located above commercial uses in that city, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal....
Editor’s note: Due to space considerations, New Urban News is unable to print the full list of projects and codes compiled by the authors. Please contact us at (607) 275-3087 and we’ll be happy to send you a copy of the list.
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Glatting Jackson of Orlando has hired Ian M. Lockwood, a nationally recognized traffic calming expert, as a Senior Transportation Engineer. Lockwood, formerly a transportation engineer with West Palm Beach, Florida, won the 1997 Past Presidents’...
“The advantages of the cul-de-sac over the through street are that they are quieter and safer for children; they provide the potential for more neighborly interaction; there is a greater sense of privacy; residents have a greater ability to...
With its Smart Growth Matrix (see October/November 2000) and other incentive programs, Austin, Texas, has provided a model for encouraging new urbanist and smart growth projects. In an article in the Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal,...
Baltimore is eyeing a massive, 20-block redevelopment in one of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods. The city has tapped Urban Design Associates (UDA), a Pittsburgh firm with extensive New Urbanism credentials, to lead the planning process. The...
A handful of municipalities around the US have recently approved or are working on codes designed to promote new urbanist planning and development. McKinney, Texas, city planners recently adopted a land-use plan and a new urbanist zoning overlay for...
In another expansion of his smart growth initiative, Gov. Parris Glendening hopes to appoint what may be the nation’s highest ranking state official to deal exclusively with smart growth development. The Maryland General Assembly is considering the...
As part of a restructuring of Post Properties, Senior Executive Vice President Art Lomenick left the company and joined Workplace USA, a Dallas firm specializing in office development in mixed-use projects. Lomenick was in charge of Post’s...
HOK Planning Group, a division of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK), one of the world’s largest architecture firms with more than 1,800 employees worldwide, has formed the New Urban Studio. The studio is led by three experienced new urbanist...
“Advance scouts for urban sprawl” is how one commentator characterizes public school systems in the new report from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Neighborhood Schools in the Age of Sprawl: Why Johnny Can’t Walk to School. At...
The Planning and Zoning Committee in Wildwood, Missouri, has given preliminary approval to a $35 million, mixed-use development as part of its new urbanist plan for Wildwood Town Center. Incorporated only five years ago, Wildwood is a rapidly...