An Urban Plan for a New New Orleans

spencer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:19:35 +0000

I submitted the op-ed below to the editorial desk of the New Orleans Times Picayune two weeks ago. I have not received any response to my inquiries, so I assume that they are not interested; if that changes I may have to remove this post. In any case, I would like to present my solution for a sustainable redevelopment of New Orleans: An urban plan for a new New Orleans. Although New Orleans avoided GustavÊ¼s wrath, we need to learn as much as we did the hard way from Katrina. Instead of rebuilding the city and the levees as they were, we need to make it so that New Orleans will never worry about a hurricane again. New Orleans has had a past fraught with disasters: twice ï¬res wiped out the bulk of the French and Spanish colonial city and there have been numerous ï¬‚oods and levee breaks which have altered the cityÊ¼s shape.Â Over the last century we believed that we had bent nature to our will by controlling the course of the Mississippi River and preventing the annual ï¬‚ood.Â At the same time developers drained the surrounding swamps to make new low-lying easily ï¬‚ooded subdivisions.Â The damage caused [...]

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An Urban Plan for a New New Orleans

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An Urban Plan for a New New Orleans