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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.
Up to 22 US cities could be laying track within two years.
The state Smart Growth program, which began in 2007 under then-Governor Eliot Spitzer, has taken a geographically targeted approach to allocating resources.
Norman Garrick, a leading researcher on how to make America’s transportation systems better serve pedestrians and communities, was removed in March from the directorship of the Center for Transportation and Urban Planning at the University of...
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.
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...
The groundbreaking manual for context-sensitive urban thoroughfares jointly created by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is a draft no more.
In the Town of Islip on Long Island New York the chairman of the Community Development Agency propos
In the Town of Islip on Long Island, New York, the chairman of the Community Development Agency proposed last year that modest houses on the order of Katrina Cottages be built to accommodate townspeople of modest means. In response, Planning and...
Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists of Pasadena California was selected in late January to l
Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists of Pasadena, California, was selected in late January to lead the planning and design of 7,000 acres of Fresno, California, the state’s fifth largest city with approximately 500,000 people.
Modular-adaptable designs are seen as a possible solution to Northeastern housing needs.
How do you fit short-term housing for some 60 musical theater people into a 19th-century Connecticut village, the kind of place that tenaciously resists...