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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.
Redmond Town Center, designed by LMN Architects, received the International Council of Shopping Centers’ 10th Annual Award for Superior Achievement in Design and Imaging (SADI) for 1999. The Redmond, Washington, project applies neotraditional design...
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...
The Conservation Law Foundation recently issued City Routes,City Rights, an 80-page guidebook for urban grassroots activists, educators, and local policymakers concerned with improving transportation and environmental quality in urban areas. The...
Joseph Barnes, former town architect at Disney’s Celebration, was hired as vice president and general manager overseeing day-to-day operations at I’On, a 243-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Barnes was...
The popular event featured case studies from production builders and presentations of practical techniques for new urbanist projects.
The main-stream development community poured into Chicago April 7 through 9 and showed its interest in learning...
The Richmond Better Housing Coalition opened the first phase of Winchester Greens, an 84-acre new urbanist development built for moderate income residents. The first 100 townhomes are renting for $475 to $620, according to T.K. Samanath of the...
Civano, a 1,145-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in Tuscon, Arizona, opened its first 15 homes on April 16, 1999, clustered around the first neighborhood center. The developer, Community of Civano LLC, will have offices and subsidize...
Correction In the March/April 99 issue, the table of Canadian new urbanist projects incorrectly listed the master planner for the Berczy project, which is Page & Steel, with planning assistance from Macaulay Shiomi Howson Ltd.
Suffolk, Virginia, planners developed an ordinance that uses “incentive zoning” to apply new urbanist planning and design principles, according to a recent editorial in The Virginian-Pilot. The city’s rapid growth and increasing residential land...
The Town of Huntersville, North Carolina is looking for a developer with significant experience in the New Urbanism to redevelop a 32-acre former mill site situated along the planned rapid transit corridor linking the town to nearby Charlotte. A...