Before you judge if this is a good venture or not let's consider the connection to the United Nations. I am assuming you have a foundational understanding that the United Nations intentions for the USA are ominous at best.
What is the New Urbanism?
According to the United Nation:
(1) “…compact city borrowed from stylized images of the physical, economic, and social conditions in “traditional” patterns of human settlement prior to the industrial age: the archetype from which they all stem is the ancient village–physically compact, economically localized, and socially self-contained (Brindley, 2003)."
"These Compact Cities are known as “New Urbanism” (United States), “Smart Growth” (United States),… and “healthy community” movements.”
How in the United Nations behind the
New Urbanist Movement?
Haley Barour Requested The Congress of the New Urbanist (CNU) to rebuild the Gulf area after Katrina.
In doing so John Montague Massengale was invited and worked on the coast as discribed in his bio, but more telling is, who is Massengale and what is his connection to both the U.N. and the current Gulf Coast Sustainable Community?
U.N. Department of Economics and Human Affairs Population Division conducted a meeting where New Urbanist project was defined as stated above.
Massengale was the Co-Chair to the United Nations Regional and Physical Planning Caucus (Habitat II)
Massengale is the Chair of Congress for the New Urbanist delegation to Habitat II to the United Nations.
Massengale was the Urban designer for Mississippi Renewal Forum (following Katrina) Biloxi, Mississippi.
http://urbanist.massengale.com/JMassengaleCV.pdf
So I hope you can clearly see the U.N. connection to the gulf coast but there is more. Who is on the New Urbanism Board?
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein is the president and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT). Scott leads CNT’s work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally. He studied at Northwestern University, served on the research staff of its Center for Urban Affairs, taught at UCLA and was a founding board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center. President Clinton appointed Scott to the President’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its task forces on Metropolitan Sustainable Communities and on Cross-Cutting Climate Strategies and to other Federal advisory panels on global warming, development strategy, and science policy. He helped write a climate change strategy for the 1st 100 days of the new Administration. Scott is a Fellow of the Center for State Innovation, works with governors, mayors and metropolitan organizations across the U.S., and most recently helped create the Chicago Climate Action Plan at the request of Mayor Richard M. Daley. Scott is a member of the Urban History Association, which includes urbanists old and new. Scott co-founded and chairs the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, led the development of the Location Efficient Mortgage®, co-founded the Center for Transit Oriented Development, and helped lead a civic network to question the premise of the proposed Deep Tunnel and Reservoir Program.
Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis was born in Great Britain and moved to the U.S. during high school. She received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Tennessee, moved to Washington DC in 1988 to practice architecture, and then realized her true passion was urban design. She has been President of the Washington DC Chapter of the CNU since its inception in 2002 and has taught architectural design studios at the University of Maryland. Sarah joined Ferrell Madden Associates three years ago to form Ferrell Madden Lewis. Her expertise includes the design of projects with open public involvement, design guidelines and form-based coding, and facilitation of the physical implementation of those projects. She has worked with jurisdictions across the country developing urban design master plans for mixed-use developments. These new developments, plus infill and redevelopment plans for existing communities, have ranged in scale from walkable historic neighborhoods to entire downtown areas encompassing hundreds of acres. Three notable projects under her design and management guidance have won Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Awards: the College Town Study for Lexington Kentucky (2006), the infill/redevelopment plan with architectural and urban design guidelines for the historic Beall’s Hill neighborhood in Macon Georgia (2005), and the Concept Plan for Rebuilding Long Beach Mississippi (2007).
Connie Moran
Connie M. Moran was elected Mayor of her hometown, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in June 2005. Previously she was president of her own consulting firm, Moran Consultants, providing marketing and business development services. Ms. Moran has fifteen years of experience in state and local government. She served three years as Director of Jackson County Economic Development until March 1999. Prior to this position, Ms. Moran served as Managing Director of the State of Mississippi European Office in Frankfurt, Germany, for five years, recruiting new business and industry to the state on behalf of the Mississippi Development Authority. Ms. Moran holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Finance/Economics and International Commerce from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct graduate research in Germany. Ms. Moran is active in community volunteer and civic activities, and serves as a board director for Jackson County United Way and Boys and Girls Clubs. She has also served on the Jackson County Port Authority Board of Commissioners and on the Board of Trustees of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.
March 22, 2012 ; Connie Moran is an active member on the Executive Board of the Gulf Coast Plan for Opportunity also known as the Gulf Coast Sustainable Community. According to the information provided, they are implementing a comprehensive plan of the United Nations, Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development on the Gulf Coast to include food, water, housing, transportation, energy, air quality and land use.
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