Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Rebuilding Mississippi (and New Orleans)

Mississippi Renewal.jpgRendering from the Mississippi Renewal website.

Check out this website every day for fascinating material. It really says something about the importance and centrality of public and expertise in a public process (more about that later in the week).

Also, the New York Times, "Architects Ponder Rebuilding of Biloxi," and the Washington Post, "Mississippi, the Reshape of Things to Come" have published articles about the New Urbanist reconstruction planning process that is underway in Mississippi.

And, the Brookings Institution has published, "New Orleans after the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the Future," a fascinating and important document about New Orleans.

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