Alabama Catches On To New Urbanism

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Blake Pool

14 June 2004 - 12:00pm

After years of coastal sprawl, Alabama's beaches finally see a trio of walkable, mixed-use communities.

"Bon Secour Village will be a town, not just another waterfront project on the Intracoastal Canal in Gulf Shores. That's according to the project owners, who have dubbed themselves town founders rather than developers of the 1,000-acre site...

The owners hired Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., who planned the coastal towns of Seaside and Rosemary Beach, Fla. Duany has proposed a 'new urbanism" design that features a compact, walkable resort town.'"

Full Story: Building a town Bon Secour developers say village is more than just another waterfront project

Source: Mobile Pipeline, June 13, 2004