Archives
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.
By Léon Krier, edited by Dhiru A. Thadani and Peter J. Hetzel
If you’ve never read Léon Krier, you’ve missed a tremendous pleasure.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported April 22 that the redevelopment of a 28-acre former industrial site into the Glenwood Park neighborhood has been largely successful. For being new, it feels old-fashioned, says resident Abbie Gulson, in a “Can...
“Any city is basically an oil well or a coal mine — it’s sitting on energy,” Douglas Foy, secretary of commonwealth development under former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, told a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conference in late April. “Any...
The National Charrette Institute released an educational DVD useful for charrette sponsors. NCI Charrette System: Stories of Community Transformation gives day-by-day accounts of recent community planning charrettes in Fort Myers, Florida; Ocean...
CNU calls on new urbanists to review and comment on the latest draft of the rating system by June 14.
Yaromir Steiner explains four important rules for regional urban centers:
Rendering 1 caption (appears on page 1): A design for courtyard housing in Santa Fe, see story on page 9.
By Jeff MapesOregon State University Press, 2009, 288 pp., $19.95Seeking to alter decades of entrenched and outmoded transportation policies, an increasingly diverse coalition of progressive citizen-activists, planners, advocacy groups,...
A 90- to 100-room hotel planned for Southern Village, a traditional neighborhood development in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has been shelved in response to neighborhood concerns, according to the Herald-Sun newspaper. “Although some Southern...
DOT and HUD announce a joint effort to merge land use and planning to improve livability.
Photo 1 caption (appears on page 01):The redevelopment of the Columbia Heights Metro station area in Washington, DC, won a Charter Award for 2009. See story on page 5. courtesy of the congress for the new urbanism
By Bernard Zyscovich with Douglas R. PorterUrban Land Institute, 2008, 137 pp., $69.95 hardcoverMiami architect Bernard Zyscovich has done some interesting urban things. He is credited with devising the redevelopment plan for Miami Beach’s Lincoln...