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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.
The awards have been granted for the Denver Commons, the Heart of Peoria, and Miami 21 codes, each outstanding for different reasons.
Transportation for America released poll results in late March demonstrating overwhelming American support for more resources devoted to public transportation — especially trains. More than four in five voters (82 percent) say that “the United...
Six Haitian architects, planners, and government officials spent four days in late March with a University of Miami charrette team
The New York State Department of Transportation will begin converting a 15-mile stretch of suburban highway into “a kind of suburban boulevard” this spring.
Although form-based codes (FBCs) are proliferating, practitioners disagree on precisely how a code should go about pursuing its goals.
As CNU vice-chair and award-winning urban planner Victor Dover articulated so well at the opening of CNU 17, urbanism alone stands as a potential generator of solutions for multiple critical tests facing our country and its communities. One year...
An updated US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report shows a continuing shift in development toward urban neighborhoods in the US, despite a slow real estate market. EPA’s 2010 report, “Residential Construction Trends in America’s Metropolitan...
Capital MetroRail, the first modern passenger rail system in central Texas, began carrying commuters on 32 miles of track between downtown Austin and the northwest suburb of Leander March 22.
The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index is a powerful tool for evaluating urban form.
Georgetown Land Company frustrated by its inability to obtain financing for infrastructure in a 55-a
Georgetown Land Company, frustrated by its inability to obtain financing for infrastructure in a 55-acre transit-oriented development in Redding, Connecticut, expects to sell the project to new owners by June. The company has announced that the site...
Three charrettes were sponsored in March by the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative to create models for environmentally sound development. The lead planner was Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. The final presentation, in...