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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.
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...
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 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....
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A preliminary survey...
Australia and New Zealand are making their own way along a new urbanist path.
While Australia and New Zealand share many of the challenges facing North America, there are also some important differences in both context and outcomes. Proactive...
Building homes the old-fashioned way yields lucrative returns in North Carolina.
A development of new homes in a historic city neigh borhood riddled with vacant lots would seem an unlikely candidate for a 42 percent rate of return on investment...
Density is a crucial factor when measuring the environmental impact of development, because it affects land consumption, stormwater runoff, automobile usage, and transit usage. There is much misunderstanding on this subject, mostly because density...
In the year 2018, the NIMBY wars are over, consumers have learned to recognize the difference between hybrid new urbanist developments and the real thing, and typological coding has replaced conventional zoning. These and other hopeful predictions...
CNU and the movement in general generates increasingly sophisticated coverage.
One way to take the pulse of the new urbanist movement is to see how we are being portrayed in major newspapers, magazines, and web sites. CNU continues to have a...