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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.
An obscure requirement of the 1997 Standard Building Code has temporarily stalled home construction in Longleaf, a TND in Odessa, Florida, reports developer Frank Starkey. Thirteen homes were already out of the ground when the local building...
A new research center on the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) campus in the new urbanist community Abacoa in Jupiter, Florida, will be devoted to studying the physical and social effects of new urbanist design. FAU’s Joint Center for Environmental...
The ever-growing new urbanist movement brings in new voices for four days of intense discussion. What does it take to keep the momentum?
CNU 2000, “The Politics of Place,” drew a record 1,500 architects, planners, activists, government officials...
With patience, traditional craftsmanship, and a love for maximizing space, builder and developer Dan Camp has given new life to the dilapidated Cotton District neighborhood in Starkville, Mississippi.
The Cotton District rebirth beganwith one...
The Denver/Boulder region is rapidly emerging as the metropolitan area with the largest concentration of new urbanist communities.
Someone looking to move to a newurbanist community in the next few years could find an abundance of choices below...
Vince Graham, whose credits include the acclaimed traditional neighborhood developments I’On and Newpoint, has tentatively agreed to codevelop a bayfront property.
After years of land acquisition, land clearing, and political wrangling, the 90-...
Rural-urban categorization system is touted as effective in coding, education, and design. The Transect, a new model for planning and coding the New Urbanism, is beginning to be employed in regional planning. Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (...
Collier County, Florida, has commissioned new urbanists Dover, Kohl & Partners to create a Community Character Plan for the 2,025 square mile county. The year long plan began with a charrette in April, 2000, and involves as many as 15 study...
Construction began on the town center of King Farm, a new urbanist project in Rockville, Maryland. The town center will include 125,000 square feet of retail, including a Safeway supermarket, smaller shops and restaurants, and apartments above the...
Mason Run, a 55-acre new neighborhood in Monroe, Michigan, recently went under construction on the site of a former paper mill. The city acquired the mill and sold off a portion to Crosswinds Communities, which hired Urban Design Associates of...
Ground has been broken for the commercial town center in Park DuValle, the neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, built through the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Hope VI program. The 25,000- square-foot town center will include retail...
“New Hampshire needs to develop a New Urbanism,” states Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Howard in a position paper on sprawl. Howard’s platform includes calls for reassessing zoning codes, reusing vacant buildings, paying more attention to...