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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 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...
New grants fund projects by new urbanist designers.
A recent round of $507 million in grants confirms that the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is committed to revitalizing public housing using
new urbanist principles....
Setting up a legal framework for a mixed use town center may require the developer to look at malls for inspiration.
Town center is by far the most complex part of a traditional neighborhood development (TND), where the mixed uses converge in a...
New Urbanist philosopher Leon Krier’s new book, Choice or Fate, critiques the architectural excesses of Modernism and presents a workable countervision in the form of graphical plans for the restoration of several European city centers, a design for...