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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.
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...
The New Urbanism has yet to make a strong foothold in Southern California, but the developers of Liberty, a planned TND in Riverside County, have been heartened by “the tremendous builder response” to the 2,900 acre, 7000-unit project, according to...
More than 100 people now reside in Courtside Village, a TND in Santa Rosa, California. Between 30 and 40 percent of the project’s 350 single family homes have been built, and designer Alan Cohen reports that the newly completed alley homes have...
The city of Syracuse, New York, and the surrounding Onondaga County now have a new urbanist plan to guide growth over the next 20 years. On October 13, Andres Duany presented the results of a week-long charrette to the public. One of the first...
Duany Plater Zyberk & Company, Miami, 1999. Plastic cover, 74 pp. (11" x 17"), $99. The Lexicon can only be ordered direct: 305-644-1021. Most active new urbanists have seen bits and pieces of The Lexicon of the New Urbanism. Anyone who has...
Transit oriented development (TOD) is becoming a crucial part of the effort to control Atlanta’s sprawl and smog problems. The effort got a boost in January when Bell South announced that it would join the fight against traffic congestion and sprawl...
Traditional neighborhood developments under construction in the US rose by 28 percent in 1999.
Traditional neighborhood development (TND) in the U.S. continued its steady growth in 1999. However, on a percentage basis, the increase was not as...
Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, was interviewed on ABC World News Tonight on July 21. The subject was how the design of conventional suburbs offer teenagers little in the way of activities and richness of...
The August 16 issue of Time magazine features the article “Saving Suburbia” on traditional neigborhood developement. The Wall Street Journal covered the report Valuing the New Urbanism in its August 4 edition.
Five hundred copies of Andres Duany’s Lexicon are now available in a preliminary edition, 99 percent complete. The complete edition will be published in 2000. Contact DPZ at: (305) 644-1023.
A year-long fight over the design of a big box development in downtown Decatur, Georgia, has provided the impetus for the new, mandatory design guidelines for the historic business district. All new commercial developments must meet the guidelines...
The neighborhood store in Haile Village Center, a TND in Gainesville, Florida, was recently moved across the street and down a block, according to developer Robert Kramer. A new manager was hired, and sales immediately rose 40 percent in the Village...