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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.
Yarrow Ecovillage near Chilliwack British Columbia is planning to build a mixed-use center that woul
Yarrow Ecovillage, near Chilliwack, British Columbia, is planning to build a mixed-use center that would compensate for the loss of its town center when shopping malls took customers away years ago. Co-housing expert Charles Durrett of McCamant...
A series of workshops will take place to create a regional transportation vision for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. Portfolio Associates will lead the effort, which will also include Kittelson & Associates and TND Planning Group. The...
Looney Ricks Kiss (LRK), a Memphis, Tennessee, architecture and planning firm that has played a key role in Harbor Town and other traditional neighborhood developments, filed a petition Feb. 24 to undergo Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization....
A study of Hartford, Connecticut, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, finds that if employers subsidized transit and charged for parking, demand for parking spaces might fall by a fifth.
A recent survey of US communities finds that Form-based codes started to take off noticeably in 2007, and the surge of adoptions continues today.
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...
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.