New Orleans under reconstruction / edited by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reese, Carol McMichael.

Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.

Fontenot, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Louisiana--New Orleans.

City planning.

Urban renewal--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Urban renewal.

Urban policy--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Urban policy.

Buildings--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Buildings.

Architecture.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Architecture--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Physical Description:

xxix, 544 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Verso Books, 2014.

Summary:

When the levee system protecting New Orleans failed and was overtopped in August 2005 following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city was flooded, with a loss of 103,000 homes in the metropolitan area. At least 986 Louisiana residents died. The devastation hit vulnerable communities the hardest: the elderly, the poor, and African-Americans. The disaster exposed shocking inequalities in the city. In response, numerous urban plans and myriad architectural projects were proposed. Nearly nine years later, debates about planning and design for recovery, renewal, and resilience continue. This bold, challenging, and informed book gathers together a panorama of responses from writers, architects, planners, historians, and activists-including Mike Davis, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Denise Scott Brown, and M. Christine Boyer-and searches for answers to one of the most important questions of our age: How can we plan for the urban future, creating more environmentally sustainable, economically robust, and socially equitable places to live? Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword : Sittin' on the front porch with a shotgun / Mike Davis

Introduction / Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, 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, 1920-1960 / 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 / 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 / Andrés Duany

Recovery chaos: urban neighborhood redevelopment after disaster / Bradford Powers

Still searching for higher ground / Byron Mouton

Projects : Single-family housing : Tarpon House / University of Arizona ; L9 Pil-Aft: suburban germination / Columbia University ; Float House / Morphosis ; Breeze House / Auburn University ; ecoMOD2: preHAB / University of Virginia ; Make It Right houses / MVRDV ; Say yoo-hoo to the bungalette / Columbia University

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 : Eco-shells / Soft Shoe Studio ; Local green, live work play / CP+D Workshop ; Ecological crossings in New Orleans / Columbia University ; Femanator: can a trailer park evolve? / m2d ; Resilient topographies: ascending gardens / University of Pennsylvania ; Density and the architecture of exchange / Tulane University

Part V. Reconstructing the public sphere : Reinventing the crescent / R. Allen Eskew

Projects : Public building : The Hill: Martin Luther King School / MVRDV ; Schools within school prototype for public schools: to learn, must New Orleans confront its biggest fear? / Columbia University ; New Orleans Neighborhood Center / Harvard University ; Classroom prototype for public schools: the urban salvaging system / Columbia University ; MoFAD, Museum of Food and Drink / Clemson University ; National Jazz Center and Park / Morphosis ; The palpability of literature and architecture: a library in New Orleans / California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo ; Cultural complex prototype for public schools: who gets to call school home? / Columbia University

Part VI. Reconstruction cultural landscapes : Architectural activism through multiple scales, venues, programs, and collaborations / Derek James Hoeferlin

Landscape agency in urban revitalization / Elisabeth Mossop

Pontchartrain Park + Gentilly Woods landscape manual / Jane Wolff and Carol McMichael Reese

Projects : Cultural landscapes : Precious memories floating on a mystic horizon / Knoops ; Sites of memory / Clemson University ; Big + Fix / Hargreaves Associates / Light of hope / University of Michigan ; Ujamaa Square: movable, elevated pathways / Wentworth Institute of Technology ; reGrow: the Lafitte Corridor / Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Streams: city park / West8

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 LOLA game / Washington University, St. Louis ; Environments of design, New Orleans now: public housing / Columbia University ; Inter-living system / University of Kansas ; Mega medical city / Alec Ng

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 de Cunha

Ground Zero / J. David Waggonner III

Mapping the aftermath and charting new strategies / Anthony Fontenot with Jakob Rosenzwieg

Projects : Flood mitigation and infrastructure : The big leak ? University of Virginia ; INhabiting the fluid terrain: inhabitable revetments / University of Pennsylvania ; Inhabiting the fluid terrain: constructing permeable landscapes / University of Pennsylvania ; Liquid urbanism: new hydraulic pocket ground / Pratt institute ; NOLA evacuation barges / University of Michigan ; Upside-down: the Ninth Islands / University of Michigan ; Resilient topographies: inhabitable foundations / University of Pennsylvania

Timeline / Alison N. Popper.

ISBN:

9781781682722

1781682720

1781682739

9781781682739

OCLC:

871337974