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.
Richard Bernhardt, director of planning for the City of Orlando for 17 years, resigned from that position to start a specialty town planning and urban design office for EDAW, a nationwide design firm. The studio, based in Orlando, will focus on new...
Who says traditional design has to be expensive? The Neighborhood Housing Development Corp. (NHDC) of Gainesville built homes designed by architect Robert Orr of New Haven, Connecticut, for $42 square foot, according to David Herkalo, NHDC director...
The developer of Carpenter Village in Cary, North Carolina, was able to convince local officials that the project’sTND design would result in a 50 percent reduction in vehicular trips. The assertion was supported by research by Cary’s traffic...
After a decade, Joel Embry is finally seeing his dream of building a walkable town becoming a reality.
Challenges such as financing and approvals often put new urbanist projects on hold for years, but few developers have persisted as long as Joel...
Everyone is writing about sprawl and the New Urbanism these days. Time magazine recently described the “The Brawl Over Sprawl” in an article
reporting on a host of initiatives on local, state, and national levels to curb suburban development....
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...
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...
Liveable Communities: An Evaluation Guide was recently released by The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) to help senior citizens understand how public transportation, driving, walking, housing, shopping, and civic features contribute to...
Forest City, a national real estate development firm, has been selected as the codeveloper, with the Stapleton Development Corp., of the former Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado. Forest City agreed to pay the city $83.8 million for 2,935 acres...
The 1999 Seaside Prize was awarded to Robert A. M. Stern, dean of Yale University School of Architecture and one of the architects of Disney’s Celebration. The prize, to
be presented May 15, is annually awarded by the Seaside Institute in Seaside...
Highland Garden Village, a 27-acre TND in Denver, Colorado, has commitments from buyers for almost half the lots scheduled for phase one construction this spring without any significant marketing efforts or built models, according to developer Perry...
1Projects feature new urbanist design and are located on urban sites or previously developed suburban sites; 2Designed means the project is on hold, but has a chance of being built; groundbreaking means infrastructure construction; advanced planning...