Category: New Orleans

New New Orleans is here: Part 2, the physical city

16 January, 2009 (08:39) | Cities, Katrina, New Orleans | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's part 1.]
 
[Click here for an archive of my 2005 New New Orleans posts.]
 
As we saw yesterday, three years after Hurricane Katrina, I was in New New Orleans at an AHIC conference that included a lunchtime speaker from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, followed by a bus tour of the flooded [...]

New New Orleans is here: Part 1, the people

15 January, 2009 (09:04) | Cities, Katrina, New Orleans | No comments

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Three years in, what has New New Orleans become?  A month ago I was back in the Big Easy for the first time since Katrina.  Did the city bear more resemblance to my optimistic view (Venice on the bayou) or my pessimistic view (Galveston [...]

NNO: What are you trying to accomplish?

28 December, 2007 (10:34) | New Orleans, Policy, US News | 1 comment

The pillory, I have always thought, was among the cleverer of human punishments, mingling ostensible restraint with cynical cruelty.  What could be more salutary than exposing the malefactor to public humiliation and shame?  And what could be more deniably vicious than placing him where one could rely on the cowardly sadism of passers-by to shower [...]

NNO: when in doubt, punt

23 November, 2005 (14:56) | Government, Housing, New Orleans |

A couple of weeks back, so quietly you might have missed it [You certainly did! -- ed. I said it was quiet, didn't I? -- Ed.], the President took his (and therefore the Federal government’s) position on the rebuilding of New New Orleans. 
 
He punted.
 

“Put that problem in somebody else’s territory.”
 
He issued Executive Order 13389 [...]

Radical deconcentration

8 November, 2005 (14:24) | Federal funding, Housing, New Orleans, Slums, US News |

Even as Paris suffers through the hideous consequences of malignant income over-­concentration, back home Hurricane Katrina has done what three decades of well-meaning urban social policy could not: it has decisively and permanently deconcentrated poverty from Old New Orleans.   < ?xml:namespace prefix ="" o />
 

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