Archives
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.
St. Michaels, Maryland, a town of 700 homes on Chesapeake Bay, must decide whether to approve a new urbanist project or allow conventional development. The Midland Companies of Washington, D.C., proposed Miles Point, a 375-unit TND, on an 89-acre...
Construction is underway in West Park Village, a 225-acre TND located in the 2,000-acre Westchase development near Tampa, Florida. Designed by RTKL, the project is one of the first transit-oriented developments in Florida. It features several...
Playa Vista in West Los Angeles recently lost its most prominent tenant when DreamWorks SKG scrapped their plans for a studio. The facility represented only 4 percent of the entire development, and the loss won’t affect the rest of the building...
As the New Urbanism rides a crest of public attention, more developers are incorporating ideas from the movement into suburban-style projects.
Arecent article on New Urbanism in Time magazine mentioned Centennial, a “New England-type TND” north...
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.
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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...
A former suburban mall near Chattanooga, Tennessee, has increased its retail occupancy dramatically as a result of a plan to convert it to a 70-acre mixed-use town center. Eastgate Town Center had a 27 percent occupancy rate in 1997 that has risen...
Ground has been broken for the first phase of Cascade Station, a mixed-use urban center adjacent to Portland International Airport. Designed by LMN Architects of Seattle in collaboration with Calthorpe Associates, Cascade Station incorporates two...