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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.
Families across the US who live in affordable, subsidized, rental units within a half-mile of public transit are at risk of rising rents in the next five years, according to a report published by AARP.
East Garrison Partners, a firm that included new urbanist developers Ian Gillis and Keith McCoy, lost its East Garrison project in Monterey County, California, in September when the main lender, GMAC, refused to continue financing the mixed use...
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is seeking to use stimulus spending to support livable communities, says Beth Osborne, deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy. DOT has $1.5 billion in multimodal discretionary funding from the...
While losing a development in Belmont, Tom Graham hopes for a turnaround with an infill development in Charlotte.
NEW TOWN UPDATE (posted on website) Yesterday Whittaker Builders and First Bank worked out an approved order with the court to operate under chapter 11 for the next 6 months while Whittaker works on a plan to exit chapter 11.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010, the annual report on the industry from the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers, is bearish on commercial real estate in general but bullish on mixed use, urban neighborhoods. A “fundamental shift” is...
Lost Rabbit a traditional neighborhood development TND near Jackson Mississippi is continuing to dev
Lost Rabbit, a traditional neighborhood development (TND) near Jackson, Mississippi, is continuing to develop despite the slow housing market, according to an article in the Northside Sun, a local newspaper. One building has been competed, another...
Despite Walmart’s professed openness to new ideas, the giant retail chain has quashed all efforts to have its new store in Pass Christian, Mississippi, function as part of a walkable, mixed use development.
The transect-based, form-based Miami 21 zoning ordinance was adopted by the Miami City Commission on a 4-1 vote October 22 (see reports in the September and October-November issues of New Urban News). It will take effect in February. Miami is the...
Thanks in part to the work of CNU members acting as advisers to the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system may soon award a special bonus point to projects in Arlington Heights or...
The September New Urban News reported that Vancouver, British Columbia, has started allowing rentable secondary suites to be created in newly constructed condominium buildings but not in existing buildings. Vancouver Senior Planner Neal LaMontagne...