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New Urbanism and the rebuilding of Mississippi

Posted by Yankee on May 23, 2006 - 9:30pm
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: biloxi, hurricane katrina, mississippi, new urbanism [list all tags]

In this week's New York Times magazine, there's an interesting article on plans for rebuilding the Mississippi coast towns that were devastated by Katrina. According to the article, unlike New Orleans, Mississippi has been more successful in jump-starting the plans to rebuild, partly because of better planning and political leadership, and partly because private companies have infused the initiative with a little cash.

When it came time to draw up a plan for Biloxi and surrounding towns, the people in charge decided to call on the Congress for New Urbanism. What happened then was a real study in how American values can clash.

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