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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.
Park DuValle, one of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s largest Hope VI projects, is turning out to be a hit with buyers. The 1,200-unit redevelopment of a public housing project in Louisville, Kentucky, is designed by Urban Design...
The Tolkin Group recently won a competition sponsored by the City of Manhattan Beach, California, to develop Metlox Block, a 3-acre, mixed-use extension of downtown. The developer plans to break ground in late 2000 on the project, which was designed...
Fannie Mae, the nation’s largest source of financing for home mortgages, recently committed to invest $1 billion in the four-year “House Washington” initiative. House Washington is a nine-point plan to remove regulatory barriers to residential...
BARRY SPITZNASS, 53, a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, died suddenly on Wednesday, June 2. He was an avid new urbanist who developed several projects in the Bloomington, Illinois, area, including Goose Creek Apartments, Woodland...
Editor’s note: more coverage of CNU VII appears on page 20 of this issue.
The seventh annual Congress for the New Urbanism, the largest ever, concentrated exclusively on city issues. “There are no suburban projects being shown at CNU VII and that...
Correction: an article on page 17 of the March/April 1999 issue misidentified the designers of Concord Village and Eagle Creek in Indianapolis. They are: Tise, Hurwitz & Diamond Inc. and Clyde E. Woods & Associates.
A recent New York Times article featured the New Urbanism as an antidote to the physical and emotional isolation encountered by teenagers living in suburban tract developments such as Littleton, Colorado. Typical suburban developments, with their...
Construction began this spring on Longleaf, a 568-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in New Port Richey, Florida. The project was developed by the Longleaf Development Company and designed by Geoffrey Farrell and Armando Montero. The...
A new study in support of transit was presented by the conservative Free Congress Foundation at the recent Congress for the New Urbanism conference. The study examines the percentage of trips that transit carries in comparison to the trips for which...
Middleton Hills recently planted its central wetlands park, which will be a major amenity for the 149-acre TND in Madison, Wisconsin. Most of the park will be marshes and ponds ringed by walking trails and grass. Active recreation includes a soccer...
The Town Group plans to break ground this fall on Liberty, a 3,000-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Riverside County, California. Designed by Cooper Robertson, the project is a series of seven villages on the edge of a lake, each...
The City of Aspen, Colorado, recently approved a $1 million revitalization of three downtown blocks in response to a citizen- initiated plan to revamp parking and encourage pedestrian use of downtown. Design Workshop, a landscape architecture and...