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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.
Washington, D.C., has some good examples of new urbanist infill housing. Parkside, in the Northeast section of the city, shows that affordable new urbanist housing can be built on a strict budget. The 26-acre site currently includes townhomes,...
A study of about 200 school sites in South Carolina concludes that schools built in the last two decades discourage children from walking to school and contribute to urban sprawl. In Wait for the Bus: How Lowcountry School Site Selection and Design...
As the nation’s largest financier of commercial and residential real estate, Bank of America wields considerable influence in the market, and the bank now claims it wants to use that influence to make the market more attentive to environmental...
Top West Coast new urbanist projects and plans were recognized at the Smart Growth conference in San Diego, when the Local Government Commission’s Center for Livable Communities presented its annual Ahwahnee Awards.
The awards for projects built in...
Pulte Homes’ Florida region remains committed to trying New Urbanism after Salamanca’s defeat.
Pulte Homes, the nation’s largest home builder, has struggled for three years to get approval for Salamanca, a 160-acre traditional neighborhood...
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company has announced that the following books will be published in 2000 or 2001: DPZ: A Chronology of Buildings, by Joanna Lombard and Beth Dunlop and published by Princeton Architectural Press, will cover the...
The Congress for the New Urbanism has published Transportation Tech Sheets, covering traffic calming and other new urbanist transportation issues, and Principles for Inner City Neighborhood Design, on revitalization issues. These booklets are...
Three times a year, the CNU Board of Directors gathers in quiet rooms to contemplate and decide on the direction of the organization. Though CNU’s strength comes from its members, the Board plays an important role by focusing the group’s strategies...
A neighborhood of multifamily housing designed by Torti Gallas & Partners/CHK will begin construction in early spring in Celebration’s South Village. Developed by Pritzker Residential, the 50-acre project will include 720 apartments and...
The National Building Museum has established the Vincent Scully Prize in honor of the influential teacher and critic of architecture. The annual $25,000 prize will be awarded for “exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture,...
Institute for Traditional Architecture (ITA) is scheduled for an official kickoff in February, 2000. The event will take place in a new chapel/community hall designed by Leon Krier, at Windsor in Vero Beach, Florida. Directors of the ITA are Krier,...
Victoria Courts is a 10-block, 44-acre new urbanist neighborhood planned by the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA). The housing authority has announced that it will demolish old public housing on the site and seek a developer through a request for...