Duany To Lead New Urbanists' Largest Planning Effort

"The devastation that Hurricane Katrina inflicted on Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in late August has prompted the largest community planning effort ever undertaken by new urbanists.

Some 100 architects, planners, transportation specialists, and other professionals from new urbanist firms across the US will meet in Mississippi Oct. 11-18 to help lead a massive planning effort aimed at rebuilding at least nine of that state’s stricken coastal communities, including Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula. The firms involved will work for a fraction of their usual fees and will team up with local architects and planners, said Miami architect-planner Andres Duany, who is coordinating the program on behalf of the Congress for the New Urbanism."