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Katrina lingers
A lack of basic infarstructure is stymying the reconstrution of buildings along the Gulf Coast.
UVA architecture professor William Morrish talking to The Hook:
Others at the university architecture faculty have been on the ground, clearing debris and building innovative modular housing with Habitat for Humanity. John Quale, also from UVA, voices concern that New Urbanists are arriving on the Gulf Coast, and will be coordinating the redevelopment of 11 towns. "They're trying to impose this new design on Mississippi, instead of letting people decide what they want. Tying in aesthetics with urban planning is a recipe for disaster."
THE HOOK 11.05.06
Meanwhile in Vermont, the Norwich University 1st year architecture students had a make believe disaster of sorts, and carried out reconstruction themselves, using, "the kind of materials that could be scavenged from dumps, construction sites, and back lots."
TIMES ARGUS 29.04.06
UVA architecture professor William Morrish talking to The Hook:
We should be saying we have to totally rebuild New Orleans, and it will cost billions, and it will take us 10 years... That's the scale of the disaster. That's the kind of commitment needed to truly address the situation down there... Processes were destroyed, not just houses... Its still just a carcass of a city, and there's no one there to do the ordinary things to make a community work.
Others at the university architecture faculty have been on the ground, clearing debris and building innovative modular housing with Habitat for Humanity. John Quale, also from UVA, voices concern that New Urbanists are arriving on the Gulf Coast, and will be coordinating the redevelopment of 11 towns. "They're trying to impose this new design on Mississippi, instead of letting people decide what they want. Tying in aesthetics with urban planning is a recipe for disaster."
THE HOOK 11.05.06
Meanwhile in Vermont, the Norwich University 1st year architecture students had a make believe disaster of sorts, and carried out reconstruction themselves, using, "the kind of materials that could be scavenged from dumps, construction sites, and back lots."
TIMES ARGUS 29.04.06
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