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.
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...
Federal Realty Investment Trust and Post Properties will begin construction this summer on Pentagon Row, the first in a series of cooperative mixed-use projects planned by the companies since the announcement of their strategic alliance last fall....
The owner of Legacy Business Park, one of the Dallas area’s largest employers, is building the first new urbanist town center within an existing office park. Legacy Town Center, under construction in Plano, Texas, will have primary roads and...
In the most frequently chosen scenario, the average size of the single family lot would decrease from 0.32 acre to 0.29 acre in 2020. Homes would be positioned closer together, with a wider variety of housing available, including townhouses, condos...
Disney’s new town is three years old; many debate its significance to society, the real estate industry, and the New Urbanism.
Three years ago, the first residents
moved into the Town of Celebration in Osceola County, Florida. Now 2...
This year’s Congress was our largest gathering yet, with over 1,000 participants. The breakout sessions and discussions remained tightly aligned with this year’s theme — exploring cities’ inherent strengths and strategies for revitalizing urban...
A new bimonthly publication for new traditional neighborhoods, The Town Paper, seeks to make potential homebuyers more comfortable with the traditional neighborhood development (TND) concept by offering them residents’ perspectives on TNDs. Through...
Market Square in Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland, is emerging as the latest sizable town center in a new urbanist project. As of June, 1999, a total of 183,000 square feet of retail space had been leased in Market Square, including restaurants, an...
Construction could begin as early as this fall on 4,000- acre Southwood, the first of several planned traditional neighborhood developments by the St. Joe Company, Florida’s largest private landowner. Designed by Dick Galehouse of Sasaki Associates...
Pulte Homes Corporation, the nation’s largest home builder, is encountering entitlement problems with its first new urbanist project, Salamanca, a 160-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) planned for West Kendall, Florida.
A master plan guides the dramatic revitalization of a once shabby, moribund downtown.
West Palm Beach, Florida, has staged a amazing turnaround in six years since the city hired new urbanists to create a downtown plan. At the start of the decade...
Envision Utah, a public/private grassroots coalition, recently conducted a survey with Utah residents to determine their preferences for future growth and development in the state. A significant majority of the 17,000 respondents chose the two...