6.23.2006

Amusement Park Urbanism

Gulf Coast Part II:
Are New Urbanists planning a takeover of the American Gulf Coast? Aside from a slew of casinos and condos in Biloxi, it seems as though they are off to a strong start.......The Biloxi workshop looked like an attempt by New Urbanists to hijack the biggest urban planning and regeneration project in America’s recent history – the rebuilding of the Gulf coast. Indeed, they thought there was something almost sinister in the speed with which Duany mobilised his allies and secured the support of Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, after Katrina.

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