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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.
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Riverside, a traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Atlanta, Georgia, was entirely leased one and one half years after the project opened. Developed by Post Properties and designed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Riverside consists of...
About 200 townhomes have been built in Winchester Greens, a project for low to moderate income residents south of Richmond, Virginia, being developed by the Richmond Better Housing Coalition (RBHC). Winchester Greens is like a little bit of downtown...
Vince Graham and Robert Turner share a formula for success.
Down in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, two young developers are mastering the art and technique of building neighborhoods and towns. Vince Graham and Robert Turner have known each other...
More than 250 planning and design , educators, and public policy makers gathered in February for the conference “Urbanisms: New and Other.” Hosted by the University of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, the conference was...
In a survey reaching half the town’s households, 63 percent of the residents reported using their cars less than they did in their previous community. Only 8 percent said they drive more, and 29 percent reported no change in their driving habits.
Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening (D) has decided that a new campus for the University System of Maryland be housed in three vacant buildings in downtown Hagerstown instead of in a planned suburban building. Anti-sprawl groups applaud the...
The site of a planned new urbanist town in Ada, Michigan, designed by John Anderson and Philip Bess at a 1999 charrette, has changed hands. Ada Holdings LLC, owned by Amway Corporation president Dick DeVos and family, bought the 536- acre parcel...
The Seaside Institute will award its annual Seaside Prize posthumously to the Italian architect Aldo Rossi who died in 1997. In his practice as an architectural theoretician and teacher, Rossi used the city as his central theme. His best known works...
Architect Daniel Parolek of Envision Design in Berkeley, California, has designed the winning entry in the New Growth Area category of the international competition Housing the Next Ten Million.
After a search of a year and a half,Iowa City has selected a development team for the Peninsula neighborhood. The purchase price for the 70-acre site, of which only about 40 acres is developable, is approximately $1.3 million. The neighborhood,...
By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck