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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.
Homes in I’On, a TND in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, have proved popular. Housing values in this TND have skyrocketed due, in part, to a red-hot real estate market. A colonial-style single home that sold originally for $164,000 in February, 1998...
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...
Since early 1998, developers and planners in Western Australia have had an alternative model for future developments. The Western Australia Planning Commission issued Liveable Neighbourhoods: Community Design Code which advocates new urbanist...
Infill project fares better than suburbia in EPA report on travel behavior and air quality.
A proposed new urbanist brownfield development in downtown Atlanta has become a pilot project in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) program for...
If developers relied only on conventional market analysis, which focuses on what has sold in a given area in recent years, few if any new urbanist projects would be built. For that reason, new urbanist market analysts like Zimmerman Volk Associates...
Amicus Partners is the new home of Robert Shaw, former Dallas Cowboy and pioneering new urbanist developer. “Amicus means friends in Latin,” Shaw says, “and we are three friends who believe cities are going to be better.” Shaw’s partners are Jim...
The American Planning Association recently awarded its Outstanding Planning Award in the “Information Technology” category to an electronic Community Vision Survey conducted in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey. Designed and implemented by Looney...
The American Planning Association has published the report “Guide for Livable Communities Through ‘Smart Development.’” The report shows how communities are revamping development regulations and includes design guidelines and sample ordinances....
The new federal Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot program (TCSP) offers cities funds to explore the links between transportation and land use. TCSP is developed by the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of...