The editors wish to thank the following for their generous support of Project New Orleans: the Katrina Fund of the Zemurray Foundation, administered by the Greater New Orleans Foundation; the Tulane Research Enhancement Fund II; the Mary Louise Mossy Christovich Professorship, Tulane School of Architecture; and the Deans Fund for Excellence, Tulane School of Architecture.
The editors wish to thank the following individuals for their significant contributions: Maureen Long, Ph.D., for Project New Orleans management, research, and editorial assistance; and Lindsey Caruso for text descriptions in the books project sections.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: Sittin on the Porch with a Shotgun
Mike Davis
Introduction
Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, and Anthony Fontenot
PART I
Introductory Perspectives
What Should New Orleans Do?
Denise Scott Brown
Disaster Apartheid: A world of Green Zones and Red Zones
Naomi Klein
Beloved community
Rebecca Solnit
New Orleans, Nature, and the Apocalyptic Trope
Amy Murphy
PART II
Planning Perspectives
The Once and Future New Orleans of planners Milton Medary and Harland Bartholomew, 19201960
Carol McMichael Reese
New Orleans Under Reconstruction: A Crisis in Planning and Human Security
M. Christine Boyer
Ethical Dilemmas in Post-Katrina New Orleans Planning
Melissa Harris-Perry and William M. Harris Sr.
Lessons Learned: Obstacles to implementing a Resilient Vision for New Orleans
Wm. Raymond Manning
The Plan for the Twenty-First Century: New Orleans 2030
David Dixon
Citizen Advocacy and Planning Policy
Jeanne P. Nathan
Beneath the Underdog, Urban Design and the Social Contract
M. David Lee
Elbows Together, Hearts Apart: Institutional Reform, Economic Opportunity, and Social Trust in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Michael A. Cowan
Hurricanes, Civil Unrest, and the Restoration of the American City: Lessons from Newark for a New Planning Response
Toni L. Griffin
PART III
Reconstructing Domicile, Housing (Singly Considered)
Restoring the Real New Orleans, Retaining the Culture
Andrs Duany
Recovery Chaos: Urban Neighborhood Redevelopment after Disaster
Bradford Powers
Still Searching for Higher Ground
Byron Mouton
Projects:
Single-Family Housing
PART IV
Reconstructing Community, Housing (Multiply Considered)
Plum Orchard, Mon Amour
Deborah Gans
Landlocked
Denise Hoffman Brandt
Reposition in Place, No Big Plans: The Adjudicated properties project for the Lower Ninth ward and New Orleans East
James Dart
GREEN.O.LA: A Model Block for Holy cross
Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen
Projects:
Multi-Unit Housing
PART V
Reconstructing the public sphere
Reinventing the Crescent
R. Allen Eskew
Projects:
Public Building
PART VI
Reconstructing Cultural Landscapes
Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Venues, Programs, and Collaborations
Derek James Hoeferlin
Landscape Agency in Urban Revitalization
Elizabeth Mossop
Pontchartrain Park + Gentilly Woods Landscape Manual
Jane Wolff and Carol McMichael Reese
Projects:
Cultural Landscapes
Ujamaa Square:
Movable, Elevated Pathways,
Wentworth Institute of Technology
reGrow: The Lafitte Corridor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PART VII
Urban Analysis
Haunted Housing: Eco-Vanguardism and Eviction in New Orleans
Yates McKee
Justice Reinvestment New Orleans
Laura Kurgan
The New Algiers Project
Terreform
Projects:
Urban Analysis
The Brewery Pod,
City College of New York
Claiborne Stitch,
City College of New York
We Are All Players in the NOLA Game,
Washington University, St. Louis
Environments of Design, New Orleans Now: Public Housing,
Columbia University
Sea Level: Balancing New Orleans,
University of Kansas
PART VIII
Living with Water: Flood Mitigation and Infrastructure
Planning at Multiple Scales, from the Gulf States Region to New Orleans Neighborhoods
Robert Tannen
Beyond the Line
Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
Ground Zero
J. David Waggonner III