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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 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.
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Dan Burden, founder of Walkable Communities Inc., has started what he says will be his sixth and final nonprofit organization, the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, in Port Townsend, Washington.
Washington, DC, is considering eliminating its minimum parking requirements for retail establishments, offices, and apartments near Metro stations, according to a report in the Washington Post. The city has discovered that parking requirements based...
Bristol Downtown Development Corp of Bristol Connecticut has selected Renaissance Downtowns of Plain
Bristol Downtown Development Corp. of Bristol, Connecticut, has selected Renaissance Downtowns of Plainview, New York, to revitalize the site of a former shopping mall. The selection was scheduled to be voted on by city council in January, according...
Years of preparation by Canadian urbanists, including municipal planners, urban design officials, academics, and private practitioners, have culminated in the formation of the Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU).
In two new urban developments under construction by LeylandAlliance — Warwick Grove in Warwick, New York, and Hammond’s Ferry in North Augusta, South Carolina — designer Marianne Cusato is introducing a house tailored to today’s insecure economic...
The City of Pasadena, California, approved design guidelines for housing and mixed use buildings throughout much of the city in October. Created by Moule & Polyzoides of Pasadena, Design Guidelines for Neighborhood Commercial & Multi-Family...
The Charity Commission in the United Kingdom has rejected a complaint that the Princes Foundation fo
The Charity Commission in the United Kingdom has rejected a complaint that the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment improperly intervenes in planning processes and that Prince Charles exerts too much influence over the foundation.
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McCormack Baron Salazar a St Louis-based developer with a national reputation for urban infill is pa
McCormack Baron Salazar, a St. Louis-based developer with a national reputation for urban infill, is partnering with Metro, which operates transit service in the St. Louis area, on a transit oriented development (TOD). The developer wants to build...