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.
The website recently shifted from New Urban Network to Better! Cities & Towns. This month, we will change the name of our print newsletter as well.
Projects in St. Louis, MO, Normal, IL, Albuquerque, NM, El Paso, TX, and Howard, SD, were recognized in the agency's eighth annual awards.
The agreement preserves funding for transit and the innovative TIGER grants program, while zeroing out high-speed rail
Yes, but don’t worry. New Urban News will continue under a new name.
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CNU members play integral part in Ryan Snyder & Associates-led effort
CNU’s new website for the Rainwater-in-Context Initiative works to institute rainwater management practices that strengthen and fully complement New Urbanism at all scales.
CNU, NRDC, and USGBC receive Outstanding Achievement Award
All 17 houses in the new Artists Village in East Haddam, Connecticut, will be completed by the end of this year.
McCamant and Durrett, architects based in Nevada City, California, have designed and developed more than 50 cohousing communities across the US.
Edited by Chris Wilson and Stefanos PolyzoidesPhotographs by Miguel GandertTrinity University Press, 2011, 338 pp. $45 hardcover
A Mercer University initiative, with aid from the Knight Foundation, and a class trip to confer with Richard Florida result in “The Lofts at Mercer Village.”