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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.
Southside, a new urbanist redevelopment of a Victorian neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now cleared to break ground in early spring of 2000. Designed by Tom Low of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and developed by Nate Bowman, Southside...
LUME 4, NUMBERS 1–6 (January/February – November/December, 1999)
Feature articles Issue, page
CITIES/INFILL
Pumping life into a city with urban design Jan/Feb 1, 3-6
Downtowns gaining population nationwide Jan/Feb 6
True urbanists May/Jun 1, 6...
Live/work units, an updated version of the old live-above-the-shop storefront, now are built or under construction in a handful of new urbanist projects. Units are built or under construction at Vermillion in Huntersville, North Carolina, Kentlands...
Until very recently, retail has been a mostly unrealized dream of the New Urbanism. The promise of integrating residential and commercial uses is an essential ingredient in the recipe for traditional neighborhood development (TND), but few new...
New Jersey’s FY 2000 budget includes $3 million for “Smart Growth Planning Grants” to assist counties and other government agencies in developing plans that “lead to reasonable managed growth strategies that will be translated into ordinances.” The...
A first-of-its-kind study measuring market demand for new urbanist housing in the Philadelphia region is being funded by the GreenSpace Alliance of Southeastern Pennsylvania and 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. The study, by Zimmerman-Volk Associates...
A visit to new urbanist communities in Oregon inspired South Dakota developer Doug Metcalf to bring aspects of TND to Brandon, a city of 6,000 inhabitants outside Sioux Falls. Metcalf designed the 40-acre Tall Grass Village adjacent to an upscale...
Midtown Commons, a 79-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) near Madison, Wisconsin, is planned to become the focal point of the approximately 500-acre High Point/Raymond neighborhood now beginning construction. Though Midtown Commons is...
The Seaside Institute’s conference December 2
through 5, Building and Rebuilding Traditional Neighborhoods, promises to take participants on a step-by-step journey through the development and redevelopment process and will offer case studies of...
Market Square in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is probably the most significant new urbanist retail development to open in 1999. Market Square is a new downtown shared by Kentlands and Lakelands, adjacent traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs)...
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is eliminating funding for the Eastward Ho! program as of September, 2000. The program promotes infill development in Eastern Florida, and provides about a million dollars annually to pay for smart growth planning by the...
CNU's long-awaited book, Charter of the New Urbanism, will be available in time for Christmas. This book is a collection of essays and commentary by 35 leading new urbanist thinkers. Each writer starts with a sentence from CNU's 1994 Charter and...