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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.
I’On in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, was recently given the 1999 Stewardship Award with Full Recognition by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. The award recognizes projects for successfully protecting natural resources through...
By Randall Arendt American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 487/488, 1999. Softcover, 144 pp., $34.00; PAS Subscribers, $17.00. ISBN 1-884829-33-3 Heritage neighborhoods like Arden, Delaware, Wyomissing,...
Editor’s note: The following is based in part on the article “Financing New Urbanism “ by Christopher B. Leinberger and Robert Davis, published in 1999 in MIT’s architectural journal Thresholds.
Alvarado stands out from other redevelopment...
New urbanist project will take housing production to a new level.
The Stapleton Airport redevelopment in Denver is the largest urban infill project in the US, according to developer Forest City. Certainly, the plans call for one of the most...
Flush with the success of his first new urbanist project, Vermillion, developer Nate Bowman is now moving forward with two transit-oriented developments (TODs). Bowman was selected as the developer of Anchor Mill, a 32-acre site, in a public/private...
Attorney Doris Goldstein has developed a set of model legal documents for TND development. Goldstein says she offers the service as a cost-effective alternative for small developers who want to avoid the high price of drafting new documents and the...
For years, CNU members in various parts of the country have urged us to work more on the local level. We have generally demurred out of concern that we would end up spending all our time on local issues and neglect the big picture. Our new Regional...
Development financing for a new neighborhood near Duke University in Durham, North Carolina has been secured by TND Capital Management LLC, a part of the TND Fund, an equity investment group for new urbanist developments. Trinity Heights is a 6.8-...
Playa Vista, the 1,087-acre mixed-use, high-density project in Los Angeles finally began construction of buildings in the winter of 2000 after more than a decade of planning, design, infrastructure development, legal battles, and a change of...
The first ever proposal for a new urbanist development in the Syracuse, New York, region is now in permit review in the Town of Camillus. The Pioneer Companies of Syracuse proposes a first phase of 84 small-lot single family homes on 30 of the site...
Twenty-five years of regional planning has left Portland with a renewed downtown, a spirited and informed public debate, and lots of sprawl that still needs fixing.
Portland has a long-standing reputation as a model for regional-scale progressive...
Washington Town Center has overcome bureaucratic entanglements and developer opposition to benefit from a hot
real estate market and become the object of high expectations.
Like many suburban communities, Washington Township, New Jer-sey, has...