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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.
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...
Peter Brown, an architect, urban planner, and member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, narrowly lost a bid to get into a runoff election for mayor of Houston, Texas. Brown finished third with 23 percent of the vote. Annise Parker (31 percent)...
Five neighborhoods with as many as 5500 housing units and as much as 6.1 million sq ft of office and
Five neighborhoods, with as many as 5,500 housing units and as much as 6.1 million sq. ft. of office and retail space, are envisioned in a proposed 640-acre development around a commuter and long-distance rail station in New Carrollton, Maryland....
The first Katrina cottage was occupied in New Orleans according to a September 27 report from ABC Ne
The first Katrina cottage was occupied in New Orleans, according to a September 27 report from ABC News. Omaira Falcon was the first resident to occupy a Katrina cottage in Louisiana, according to the report. The state received a $74 million grant...
Calthorpe Associates has been hired to lead a $2.5 million Vision California effort — to create a strategic growth plan for the state, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Phase one will be to set up parameters for the project and compile data...
South Main in Buena Vista, Colorado, began construction in January 2007, just as the nationwide housing bubble was bursting. It was bad timing for the 315-home development, located in a small former mining town 35 miles from the nearest ski resort....
New urban developments show lower automobile use, more walking, and higher levels of social activity and community satisfaction than corresponding suburban developments
On its second try, the Miami City Commission on Sept. 4 approved the “Miami 21” zoning code, which would place South Florida’s biggest city under a form-based code. The new code would be “the largest form-based code adopted anywhere,” says Marina...