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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.
Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists, of Pasadena, California, won the 2009 Outstanding Architect Award from the Los Angeles Business Journal. The firm was selected for its leadership in transit-oriented development, mixed-use, civic,...
In the nation’s capital, Jeff Speck’s new home reconciles Modern architecture and L’Enfant’s street pattern.
The Seaside Institute with Andres Duany, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, Leon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Witold Rybczynski, Robert A.M. Stern, et alSeaside seems to have seared itself into the consciousness of most of the writers, who use the...
NorthWest Crossing, a traditional neighborhood development in Bend, Oregon, has found a way to increase its sales despite the sharp drop in real estate activity nationwide. General Manager David Ford says that for several years, developer West Bend...
Wilson and Clarendon Boulevards, two thoroughfares that run through the thriving Metro rail transit corridor in Arlington, Virginia, have been designated as “Great Streets” in the American Planning Association’s award competition for 2008.
F. Barton Harvey, former chairman and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners Inc., is the recipient of the 2008 J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development from the Urban Land Institute.
The town plaza and first 40 houses in the 470-acre Oshara Village in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have been completed. The development features a “sustainable business zone.”
Darrell Mussatto, an advocate for building houses on alleys (called lanes in Canada), in November won reelection without opposition to another term as mayor of North Vancouver, British Columbia. “Next spring, Mussatto intends to publicly display...
After spending a week last August studying how to improve the downtown of Davenport, Iowa, Jeff Speck presented recommendations aimed at slowing the vehicular traffic and making the place more comfortable for pedestrians. The Washington, DC-based...
Blue Back Square, a 20-acre mixed-use addition to the long-established town center in West Hartford, Connecticut, has fared well during its first year despite the national financial crisis. “In a bleak economy, more than 90 percent of the retail and...