John Norquist

John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, believes that President Obama should reconsider committing stimulus funds to decades-old freeway expansion projects and take transportation policy in a new direction.

When The New York Times linked CNU planners to an alleged scheme to replace a neighborhood with a golf course, it blundered and missed a larger story on renewing Coastal Missisippi, say CNU co-authors John Norquist and Stephen Filmanowicz.

Should the social virtues of urbanism and new investment in cities get washed out in the hue and cry over gentrification? John Norquist, CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, examines the viability of inner-city development trends in this week's Op-Ed.