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.
Review of a book by Ken Greenberg, Random House Canada, 2011, 394 pp., $29.95 hardcover
In 2008, when Walk Score’s first ranking of cities came out, San Francisco was number one. This year New York pushed the Golden Gate City into second place.
Before FHA was created in 1934, mixed-use development was quite common. Federal policies changed all that, but now mixed-use is on the rise again.
On July 18 and 19, John Norquist participated in the Urbanization Knowledge Platform for Latin America launch event in Bogota, Colombia.
In early August, The Beaufort County School Board voted to keep Port Royal Elementary School open after it faced threats of closure.
LEED for Neighborhood Development was recently awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation.
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is excited to announce an expansion of the CNU-Accreditation program.
Post Properties proposes 410 apartments — one of four planned projects that are expected to bring nearly 1,200 rental units to the center of Orlando's Baldwin Park.
Norton Commons has been growing steadily throughout the economic downturn and is outperforming its surrounding neighborhoods.
For the first time, Sarah Susanka, architect and best-selling author of the popular Not So Big House book series, has designed a house for a development.
In the past several months, I’ve ridden bicycles in two cities that are hundreds of miles from my New Haven home — thanks in both cases to “bike-sharing.”