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.
Type an address into Abogo, a new website created by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) in Chicago, and you get transportation costs and carbon emissions per month per household.
At the Villages of Woodsong, a traditional neighborhood development in Shallotte, North Carolina, buyers are enthusiastic about houses of under 1,000 square feet.
Silver Gardens, the first affordable housing development in New Mexico designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification, has opened in downtown Albuquerque
The proportion of Americans using transit to get to work increased from 2004 to 2008
The rate of population growth in cities has almost pulled even with the suburbs, according to an analysis of 2009 US. Census estimates by William Frey of Brookings Institution.
In the Denver area, which is building a rail transit system called FasTracks, a recent real estate analysis found that people are willing to pay about 4 percent more a month to rent an apartment if it’s within a quarter-mile of a light-rail stop.
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, is joining the small number of academic institutions that teach urban planning and design with an emphasis on ideas consistent with New Urbanism.
Bicycling has become New York City’s fastest-growing mode of transportation, and one of the fastest-growing in the nation as well.
Bill to establish a federal Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities wins passage from Senate Banking Committee on party-line vote.
A ”Healthy Development Measurement Tool,” produced by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, helps communities understand how a proposed development would affect health in a neighborhood or larger geographic area.
Dr. Andrew Dannenberg and his co-authors describe the health impact assessment (HIA) as “a tool to help planners and other decision-makers better recognize the health consequences of the decisions they make.”
Louisiana demolition plan contrasts sharply with new urbanist charrettes sponsored by a hospital system in Richmond, Virginia.