Metropolis Magazine - The Power of Modernist Thinking:
"For a week in October the ballroom of the Isle of Capri casino hotel in Biloxi, Mississippi, was taken over by more than 200 planners, engineers, and architects, participants in a mega-charrette led by New Urbanist guru Andrés Duany. Invited by Mississippi's Republican governor, Haley Barbour, the Mississippi Renewal Forum's goal was to come up with a series of plans for the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast. The aim was to restore the 11 significant coastal towns that were ravaged by Katrina and make them more livable, more attractive to tourists, and--via New Urbanism's special alchemy--more 'historic.'"
