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Richard Florida
by Richard Florida
Tue Aug 29th 2006 at 8:41am UTC

On the Rebuilding New Orleans

Today is the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast. Here is a “How To Build New Orleans” by Witold Rybczynski at Slate.com… Here’s the short piece I wrote about New Orleans back in January.

(posted by Richard)

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One Response to “On the Rebuilding New Orleans”

  1. Michael Bindner Says:
    August 29th, 2006 at 10:07 pm

    They could save the lower ninth if they dredge out the channel, clean the dredgings and build up the land level. The key is a creative solution to cleaning the channel bottom. The lower you make the river and the lake (with locks back to sea level) the safer the city is.