Table of Contents
Foreword: Sittin' on the Porch with a Shotgun Mike Davis ix
Introduction Carol McMichael Reese Michael Sorkin Anthony Fontenot xvi
Part I Introductory Perspectives
What Should New Orleans Do? Denise Scott Brown 33
Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones Naomi Klein 40
Beloved Community Rebecca Solnit 57
New Orleans, Nature, and the Apocalyptic Trope Amy Murphy 75
Part II Planning Perspectives
The Once and Future New Orleans of Planners Milton Medary and Harland Bartholomew, 1920-1960 Carol McMichael Reese 97
New Orleans Under Reconstruction: A Crisis in Planning and Human Security M. Christine Boyer 121
Ethical Dilemmas in Post-Katrina New Orleans Planning Melissa Harris-Perry William M. Harris Sr. 154
Lessons Learned: Obstacles to Implementing a Resilient Vision for New Orleans Wm. Raymond Manning 170
The Plan for the Twenty-First Century: New Orleans 2030 David Dixon 179
Citizen Advocacy and Planning Policy Jeanne P. Nathan 189
Beneath the Underdog, Urban Design and the Social Contract M. David Lee 202
Elbows Together, Hearts Apart: Institutional Reform, Economic Opportunity, and Social Trust in Post-Katrina New Orleans Michael A. Cowan 207
Hurricanes, Civil Unrest, and the Restoration of the American City: Lessons from Newark for a New Planning Response Toni L. Griffin 228
Part III Reconstructing Domicile, Housing (Singiy Considered)
Restoring the Real New Orleans, Retaining the Culture Andrés Duany 237
Recovery Chaos: Urban Neighborhood Redevelopment after Disaster Bradford Powers 245
Still Searching for Higher Ground Byron Mouton 264
Projects: Single-Family Housing 279
Tarpon House, University of Arizona
L9 Prf-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 291
Landlocked Denise Hoffman Brandt 301
Reposition in Place, No Big Plans: The Adjudicated Properties Project for the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East James Dart 313
GREEN.O.LA: A Model Block for Holy Cross Matthew Berman Andrew Kotchen 320
Projects: Multi-Unit Housing 329
Eco-Sbells, 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 339
Projects: Public Building 350
The Hill: Martin Luther King School, MVRDV
Schools Within School
Prototype for Public Schools: To Learn, Must New Orleans
Confront Us 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 Reconstructing Cultural Landscapes
Architectural Activism through Multiple Scales, Venues, Programs, and Collaborations Derek James Hoeferlin 361
Landscape Agency in Urban Revitalization Elizabeth Mossop 372
Pontchartrain Park + Gentilly Woods Landscape Manual Jane Wolff Carol McMichael Reese 381
Projects: Cultural Landscapes 393
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, West 8
Part VII Urban Analysis
Haunted Housing: Eco-Vanguardism and Eviction in New Orleans Yates McKee 407
Justice Reinvestment New Orleans Laura Kurgan 418
The New Algiers Project: Terreform 440
Projects: Urban Analysis 448
The Brewery Pod, City College of New York
Claiborne Stitch, City College of New York
We Are All Players in the NOLA 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 459
Beyond the Line Anuradha Mathur Dilip da Cunha 470
Ground Zero J. David Waggonner 475
Mapping the Aftermath and Charting New Strategies Anthony Fontenot Jakob Rosenzweig 493
Projects: Flood Mitigation and Infrastructure 511
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 525
Biographies 534
