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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.
A charrette was held in September, 1998, to design a new urbanist downtown for Macomb Township, the fastest growing community in the Detroit metropolitan region. The plan, by Gibbs Planning Group, features a township hall, a district court, possibly...
Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) members made an impressive showing at the Second Annual Partners for Smart Growth Conference, which took place December 15 through 17, 1998, in Austin, Texas. More than 850 developers, public officials, and...
Investment in traditional neighborhood development (TND) is one of the fastest growing segments of the real estate industry. The TND Fund estimates that cumulative investment in this sector rose to $2.1 billion in 1998, up 75 percent from the year...
A representative of Pulte Home Corporation presents the builder point of view. Pulte Home Corporation, the nation’s largest home builder, is in the early stages of developing Salamanca, a 160-acre traditional neighborhood development (TND) in...
The Washington Architectural Foundation is now distributing the “Nolli” plans of Washington, D.C., created by the Thadani Hetzel Partnership and featured in the November/December 1997 issue of New Urban News. The plans include building footprints,...
The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry, by Robert Cervero, compiles case studies spanning five continents to investigate the roles of strategic planning, regulations, urban design, new technologies, and new approaches to government and...
The Collins Center for Public Policy recently formed the Smart Growth Center of Southern Florida to augment Eastward Ho!, a state growth control program that diverts growth in southern Florida from a westward direction, where it threatens the...
Developer Robert Shaw resigned from Post Properties in November, 1998. His new company is Amicus Partners. Shaw founded Columbus Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust that pioneered the construction of apartments in new urbanist infill...
The town center in King Farm, a 440-acre traditional neighborhood development in Rockville, Maryland, is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 1999. The town center will include a 60,000 square foot grocery store, with an entrance facing...
Mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented town centers offered by the New Urbanism could be attractive to Fortune 500 companies, according to Robert Tiscareno of LMN Architects, which designed Redmond Town Center in Redmond, Washington. The project originally...
Companies affiliated with the Mormon Church are planning a traditional neighborhood development in Kansas City, Missouri, to fulfill the city’s land use plan advocating mixed-use, high density development patterned after new urbanist plans in other...
n The Wharton Real Estate Review recently featured essays by new urbanists Andres Duany, Robert Davis, Laurie Volk, Todd Zimmerman, and Witold Rybczynski. Copies of Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 1998 can be obtained directly from the Samuel Zell and...