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Ideas for Mississippi’s coast ignite enthusiasm, face FEMA resistance
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New Urban News Article with images, 12/1/2005
New urbanist “mega-charrette” calls for boulevards, rail transit, mixed uses, and walkable neighborhoods in a devastated 11-city region.
The people of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have begun taking a series of previously unfathomable mental leaps, thanks to an extraordinary new urbanist charrette that captured the imagination of the region this fall.

Houses, no matter how small, could fit the coast
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New Urban News Article with images, 1/12/2005
Designs from less than 300 square feet on up aim to reinforce South Mississippi’s character.
The Gulf Coast of Mississippi needs to gird itself against a flood of mass-produced houses that have little in common with the homes built in the region over the past two centuries. So said many of the participants in the Mississippi Renewal Forum as they went about creating dozens of designs that would strengthen the established — and now endangered — character of the coastal communities.