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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 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...
Up to 550 apartments some of them reserved for artists will be constructed in the first phase of a d
Up to 550 apartments, some of them reserved for artists, will be constructed in the first phase of a development adjoining the Fort Totten Metro station in northeast Washington, DC, if the overall 929-unit project receives city approval. The Morris...
Residents of Madison Connecticut voted Jan 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAl
Residents of Madison, Connecticut, voted Jan. 26 to buy 42 acres along Long Island Sound from LeylandAlliance, which for nearly a decade had been planning to build a development called Madison Landing on the site. Leyland, which had paid $4.2...
By Michael BehrendtThe town’s planner for the past 14 years, new urbanist Michael Behrendt adeptly uses Rochester’s architecture as a springboard to a larger topic: the making of good communities wherever they happen to be.
The Colorado units in a contemporary style would be suitable for infill and new urban applications.
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.