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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.
CNU is currently issuing a Call for Presentations at CNU VII. Submittals are due in the CNU office
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This Congress for the New Urbanism and the movement in general have been getting a lot of media attention, both positive and negative. The good
news is that CNU issues — building real neighborhoods and livable streets, promoting compact regional...
The Seaside Neighborhood School opened in 1997. In terms of public schools, nothing like it has been built in decades. The building resembles a 100-year-old New England meeting house, albeit one equipped with modern, handicapped accessible...
As defined by New Urban News, TNDs generally include an interconnected networks of streets and blocks, a clear neighborhood center (or centers, in the case of large projects), a mix of uses and housing types, a compact form, and pedestrian-oriented...
A long-awaited train station recently opened at The Crossings, the transit-oriented village designed by Calthorpe Associates in Mountain View, California. The promise of a station helped to sell homes at the 16-acre mixed-use project, which is 80...
The Inner City and Transportation Task Forces have been asked by the Northeast-Midwest Institute, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, to copublish a book on implementing urban infill and transit-oriented development. Funding comes, in part, from the U....
Edward Bohrer Jr., the four-term mayor of Gaithersburg, Maryland, died on August 27 at the age of 58. A public servant of vision and integrity, he was an important role model in the early days of the New Urbanism.
Together with developer Joe...
We’d like to thank Architecture magazine for explaining The Truman Show,
Peter Weir’s blockbuster 1998 movie. We saw it, and thought it was about a megalomaniac television producer who keeps the fictional show’s star, Truman Burbank (played by Jim...
An adaptive reuse of an automotive shop is spurring a larger redevelopment of a depressed Detroit neighborhood. The 1921 shop is being converted into 28 market-rate, for-sale residential lofts, according to J.C. Cataldo of Canfield Lofts LLC, the...
The link is getting stronger between new mass transit lines and pedestrian-oriented development. Transit-oriented new urbanist projects recently designed and/or under construction include Orenco Station, Peterkort Station and Portland International...
CNU’s Board of Directors is reaching out to leaders of environmental organizations. At their Board meeting in October, they’ll be meeting with representatives of national and regional environmental advocacy groups. The aim is to initiate a two-way...
The Wealth of Cities, Revitalizing the Centers of American Life By John O. Norquist Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1998. Hardcover, 227 pp., $25.00 U.S.; $34.95 Canada. Milwaukee Mayor John O. Norquist has produced a treatise for...