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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.
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...
JPI, a major Texas-based developer of luxury apartments, is seeking final approval for Jefferson Center, a 109-acre mixed residential, office, and retail project north of Austin, Texas. The proposed development of 1,500 dwellings would be located in...
The first phase of construction is nearing completion in Afton Village, a 170-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Ten single homes, twelve townhomes, and four duplexes are scheduled for completion by...
Two books explore life in Disney's new town near Orlando, Florida.
State/name Location Status (Completion)2 Developer/sponsor3 Designer4,5 Acres Characteristics
Alabama
1. Blount Springs Blount Springs Construction Blount Springs DPZ 5,000 128 homes (phase1)
(60% phase 1) Recolonization Partners...
A second listserv on the New Urbanism is now on the web, focusing on design. To subscribe to PRO-URB send the following message to listserv@listserv.uga.edu: Subscribe Pro-Urb your first name your last name. The CNU listserv, a longstanding NU forum...
Valuing the New Urbanism: the Impact on Prices of the New Urbanism on Single-Family Homes, written by George Washington University economists Mark Eppli and Charles Tu and published by the Urban Land Institute, contains valuable research for...
New Jersey was the first state to adopt a separate building code for older buildings, according to John Patella, senior policy advisor with the Department of Community Affairs. In the first year of the code, 1998, rehabilitation work in the state’s...
The Environmental Protection Agency is now soliciting proposals for the FY 1999/2000 Sustainable Development Challenge Grant (SDCG). The program “challenges communities to invest in a sustainable future” and encourages “place-based approaches to...