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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 $115 million federal Hope VI project , the New East Capitol, is moving forward in Washington, DC. The project will consist of the demolition of 1,100 public housing units and construction of a mixed-income community of 555 units, a neighborhood...
Thirty years ago, Snellville, Georgia, was a small farming town at the crossroads of two highways. In the 1970s and 1980s, when US Highway 78 became a major commuter route into metropolitan Atlanta, the city and county governments encouraged...
The American Planning Association now has a New Urbanism Division. Started by CNU members Rick Bernhardt and Gianni Longo, chairs of the Planners Task Force, it will bring New Urbanism into the APA mainstream. Dues for membership are $20 per year....
By Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton Island Press, California, 2001. 302 pp., Hardcover: $55.00; Paperback: $35.00 At the opening of The Regional City, a group of Salt Lake City civic leaders sit down to figure out how best to accommodate the...
Three major new urbanist town centers are opening in the last quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2001. Abacoa Town Center in Jupiter, Florida, Pentagon Row in Arlington, Virginia, and King Farm Town Center in Rockville, Maryland, will be the...
In making a case against sprawl, proponents of the New Urbanism (NU) have repeatedly pointed out that low-density, single-use land patterns require automobiles for all trips, eliminate mass transit as an option, and force nearly all traffic onto...
The path has been cleared for Atlantic Station (formerly Atlantic Steel), the $2 billion mixed-use, brownfield project in Midtown Atlanta. Demolition of the old steel mill and remediation of the site is close to complete, and with the final...
Kevin Kelly, a developer who sold his share in Civano, a Tucson new urbanist project earlier this year, now has a new Arizona project north of Nogales, Arizona. Kelly was hired by developers Art Martori, Jerry Dixon and Al Wareing to revive a 5,200...
St. Joe Company broke ground in September on Southwood, a 3,200- acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) project near Tallahassee, Florida.
The word from the shopping center industry is that the “Main Street” model for retail development is here to stay. A recent article in the trade magazine Shopping Center World, suggests a groundswell of support for the trend among public officials...
Sales are off to a strong start in WaterColor, a new urbanist resort town in the Florida Panhandle. Located immediately adjacent to Seaside, WaterColor is being developed by Arvida, an arm of the St. Joe Company, Florida’s largest landowner. The...
Hillsborough County, Florida, is moving forward with a plan that could create sites for as many as 17 new urbanist neighborhoods in the county’s northwest sector. The plan by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) identifies sites for 11 possible...