New Urban News

Bimonthly Newsletter Covering Traditional Town Planning and Development. Robert Steuteville, Editor and Publisher, P.O. Box 157, Emmaus, PA 18049; 610/965-4623; 610/966-3434 (fax); newurban@aol.com (e-mail). $59 per year.

New Urban News has become the voice of the young but rapidly growing neo-traditional or New Urbanist movement of land-use planning and development. Neo-traditional developers seek to create or revitalize compact, mixed-use towns—providing the look and feel of small, vibrant towns across America that came into existence before the dominating influence of automobiles. Such projects have inherent environmental bene-fits because of their reduced dependence on automobiles and the protection of open space achieved by clustering buildings more densely while keeping significant areas undeveloped.

The bimonthly newsletter, launched in 1996, provides information on the dozens of neo-traditional developments that are completed, being planned, or under construction throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as news relating to neo-traditional planning. The 16-page publication is clearly written, well-illustrated, and should prove a valuable resource for designers, planners, and builders wanting to stay on the cutting edge of development trends. With the March-April 1997 issue,

New Urban News became the official publication of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), a San Francisco-based organization that has sponsored annual conferences on New Urbanism (see

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Vol. 5, No. 5).