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.
Niagara Falls, New York, is finally making progress on redoing the Robert Moses State Parkway, an 18-mile expressway that’s been controversial for almost 50 years.
The Great Inversion is serious, provocative, and gracefully written, and consistently interesting look at how the urban-suburban balance is shifting.
Thomas Dolan's book is an enormously knowledgeable guide to fitting work and living back together.
In South Carolina, residents started organizing when a developer diluted the design of a promised new urban community.
From West Palm Beach to New York City, bike-share programs are proliferating. Their financing and their scope vary.
Some new urbanist developers are shifting to infill projects rather than hope for revival of suburban traditional neighborhood developments.
The “largest transit expansion in the US” is under way. Concerned about displacement of the poor, the city has identified four transit-oriented districts for housing preservation.
One action the densely-built, approximately four-square-mile municipality took to alleviate the pressure was to adopt an inclusionary zoning ordinance.
There are cities all across the country where it’s hard to tell the New Urbanism from the old.
As rail and rapid bus service expands, rising prices along transit routes pose a threat to inexpensive housing.
The administration of Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder launched a program in April that ties placemaking to economic development and has the potential for far-reaching impact.
Compact, mixed-use development reduces automobile use and disperses traffic, according to a study of the Phoenix area.