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New Orleans rebuilding could learn from New York
New Orleans rebuilding could learn from New York
BY JUSTIN DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2005
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BY JUSTIN DAVIDSON
STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2005
When the bodies have been collected, the streets dredged and the sewers patched, New Orleans will be rebuilt. We can only hope -- naively, perhaps -- that the task will be carried out by officials smarter and better-informed than the bunglers who left Louisiana vulnerable and aggravated nature's violence with neglect.
America's most recent experience with cataclysm and reconstruction is not particularly encouraging. Four years after the smoke cleared, Ground Zero remains an empty but contentious pit of narrow agendas, noble rhetoric and political charade. Only Santiago Calatrava's PATH station is necessary, beautiful and solidly on the way to completion; this transit hub for the still-dead center of lower Manhattan broke ground Tuesday.
The World Trade Center site is 16 acres. Orleans Parish encompasses 115,616 acres, and (....)
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