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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.
Kentlands-based entrepreneur says the time has come for smaller houses and less elaborate developments.
Nearly everyone connected with real estate development has been hurt by the economic calamities of the past two years, publishers included.
It’...
Looking for a new urbanist take on The Old Farmers Almanac Tom Low and others in the Charlotte North
Looking for a new urbanist take on The Old Farmer’s Almanac? Tom Low and others in the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. have assembled the Light Imprinter’s Almanac for 2010, which offers advice to “growers and...
The New York State Environmental Protection Fund’s Smart Growth Grant Program awarded $500,000 in grants for smart growth planning projects in the Hudson Valley.
Newland Communities, developer of the 1,200-unit, 270-acre Clarksburg Town Center in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been fined $22,000 by the County Planning Board for building in ways that were at odds with what the county had approved.
After three years of work, Pine Hall Development Corporation received general plan approval for a 150-acre traditional neighborhood development called Pine Hall in Ferguson Township, near State College, Pennsylvania. The project will begin approvals...
The Humphreys Company of Oklahoma City began clearing land in December in eastern Oklahoma for Carlton Landing, a lakeside, mostly second-home community that will include an organic farm, a town center, and a wedding chapel.
Developer Grant...
Historical Concepts a design firm in Peachtree City Georgia has won the 2010 Arthur Ross Award for E
Historical Concepts, a design firm in Peachtree City, Georgia, has won the 2010 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition in the category of architecture.
Residents of Montgomery County, Maryland, are debating whether a world-class “science city” proposed by Johns Hopkins University would solidify the county’s economic future or inundate a large area near Rockville and Gaithersburg in traffic and...
The first phase of the 50-acre Westport Waterfront began in January in Baltimore The 12 billion mixe
The first phase of the 50-acre Westport Waterfront began in January in Baltimore. The $1.2 billion mixed use urban center by Turner Development Company and the Carlyle Group is planned to include 2,000 houses, 2 million square feet of offices, 300,...
For decades, pedestrians in New York City have had to tolerate temporary sidewalk construction sheds. Typically assembled from unadorned metal and painted plywood, the flat-roofed sheds make sidewalks dim and grim, sometimes for months on end.
But...
Hammond’s Ferry cuts costs while trying to preserve essential features.
Jason Spellings housing liaison for the office of Mississippi Gov Haley Barbour in the recovery effo
Jason Spellings, housing liaison for the office of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina, is resigning to become vice president of Southeastern Operations for The Wishcamper Companies, a national affordable...