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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.
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 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...
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...
Citizens for a Better Environment has created a community preference survey that helps local government officials and planners determine how citizens want their communities to look. Residents are shown slides of different developments and building...
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...