Gulf Coast Towns Consider New Urbanist Plans

Eleven towns are weighing the costs and benefits of recent plans tailored to each community, with the option to pick and choose among the various proposals.

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January 26, 2006, 9:00 AM PST

By David Gest


"...a high-powered group of community leaders, elected officials and architects are busily hammering out an ambitious framework for what could come next -- to rebuild the entire 80-mile stretch of Mississippi's coast in a way that could produce a new model for small towns."

"They are creating a test case for a different vision of America, one that seeks to turn away from the suburbs of the past half-century and instead embrace an idealized life of small towns and compact cities. It aims to resurrect the best of the past -- evening promenades, neighborhood groceries, even trolleys -- with the promise of the future's technology, jobs and transportation."

"It's also stirred up a simmering backlash among other architects, who say New Urbanists, while correct in building denser cities where people can walk, produce a 'one-size-fits-all' model that confines its solutions to the past and isn't open to new ideas."

Monday, January 23, 2006 in Biloxi Sun Herald

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