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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.
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...
Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2009, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute, grimly predicts: “The credit crisis and ensuing recession promise to drag commercial real estate markets into a difficult period marked by value...
During and immediately after the election President-elect Obama and his campaign made statements relating to smart growth, urbanism, and transit. Read Kaid Benfield’s blog and the t4America blog for details. In Google Blogs, search “Kaid Benfield...
CNU calls on new urbanists to review and comment — by January 5 — on the latest draft of the rating system. As the nation’s first rating system assessing green neighborhood development approaches completion, the Congress for the New Urbanism (...
New urbanist architecture and planning firm Goody Clancy began work in September on a master plan and zoning ordinance for the City of New Orleans. The plan will incorporate recommendations from the three citywide planning initiatives conducted in...
Hopes rise for location-efficient mortgages, which in limited tests have bucked the nationwide wave of bad housing debt by producing no known foreclosures.