New Orleans

The Planning Deliverables And Elements Explained
Originally uploaded by Maitri.

(This photo is from the first Unified New Orleans Plan public meeting.)

1. Anya Kamenetz wrote a piece that ran in the Village Voice, "Building Blocks: Neighbor by neighbor, house by house, New Orleans struggles on," that highlights rebuilding not in the "Aisle of Denial," the area close to the Mississippi River, where the land is highest (French Quarter, Garden District, Tulane) but in "Mid-City."

I have interacted with some of the people mentioned in the article, in the context of the redevelopment of a particular parcel in Northwest Carrollton. A number of them blog and web, and some of the blogs are listed in the right sidebar under Revitalization blogs, at the front of the section.

2. The New Yorker is putting most of its coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath into an accessible archive, nice because the New Yorker doesn't keep up most of its content.

Last week's issue has a story I'm reading through now by Dan Baum, ""The Lost Year," about the backstory behind "the failure to rebuild."


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