About Us

Better! Cities & Towns is dedicated to providing the best news, analysis, and intelligence on compact, mixed-use growth and development available in any medium. We offer free blogs, articles, and links to useful content from around the web, updated daily. We also offer premium articles from our periodical Better! Cities & Towns, formerly called New Urban News, that is available by subscription. Most members of the Congress for the New Urbanism subscribe as part of their membership.

We send out regular email updates to more than 15,000 recipients — mostly decision-makers and implementors of smart growth — and we are available on Facebook and Twitter.

Better! Cities & Towns is part of New Urban Publications, an expert publisher in this field since 1996. We also publish books, such as New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide — required reading for New Urbanism certification — and SmartCode Version 9 and Manual.

Our mailing address: New Urban Publications, PO Box 6515, Ithaca, NY 14851.
Our street address: New Urban Publications, 218 Utica St., Ithaca, NY 14850.
Phone: 607-275-3087
Fax: 607-272-2685
Subscriptions and books: Lisa @ newurbannews.com
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General inquiries: mail @ newurbannews.com

Editor & publisher: Robert Steuteville (Rob @ newurbannews.com)

Senior editor: Philip Langdon (Plangdon @ snet.net)
Accounts and advertising: Sarah Steuteville (ads @ newurbannews.com)
Production associate: Lisa A. Rosenthal (lisa @ newurbannews.com)