Community design costs, big-box retailers, mobile homes, and casinos are just a few of the many challenges that await the new urbanists who were selected to lead the rebuilding of the Missippi gulf coast.
Turn Biloxi and Gulfport into Mississippi's Monte Carlo, the European gambling paradise on the French Riviera. Make mobile homes look less like mobile homes by adding front porches. Downsize big-box stores and hide their mega-parking lots from public view by putting them behind the stores. These are some of the grand visions that will be debated and sometimes derided when more than 100 architects, planners, developers and transportation specialists from across the USA descend on Mississippi's hurricane- ravaged Gulf Coast Wednesday.
Thanks to Mike Lydon
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