- After the Aftermath
By Philip Nobel - Philip Nobel gives an insight on the stand of reconstructions in today’s New Orleans on Metropolis Magazine:
- “It looks like parts of Detroit. Or the riot-scarred and abandoned blocks of Newark or Philadelphia. Or Boston, along Melnea Cass Boulevard, before the overgrown urban decay started to get patched with light industry in the 1980s. Two years after the flood, not knowing the specific terrain before, I found it hard to tell that New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward has not suffered from some slow-burning economic calamity or midnight social convulsion. Looking down Deslonde or Tennessee Streets, where they run parallel to the burst levee, you see only continuous green scrub, a few trees, one very stubborn house battered but still on its foundation, and another askew, awaiting demolition. There is a single white trailer nearby, its door swinging. In the clearings where the brush and vines have not yet converged, you can find pieces of driveway blacktop and tiled kitchen floors” […]
Tags: New Orleans / Katrina / Urban Redevelopment / Preservation / Homelessness / Reconstruction
Source: Metropolis Magazine, Nov 21, 2007 Full Story: After the Aftermath
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