"Worst of all, by planning ad hoc, the city is forfeiting a chance to consider how infrastructure could be used to bind communities — rich and poor, black and white — into a collective whole. It allows residents to retreat back into their old ways and ignore uncomfortable social truths." And...
"As it stands now, the planning process is a cause for both hope and rage. It awakens us to the reality of what Americans are capable of and what our government is not."
Meanwhile, those who lack the means or assistance to gut their homes and board them up, are at risk of having their properties appropriated by a city government that has shown an amazing lack of ability at doing anything positive with the thousands of blighted properties that existed before Katrina.
And thanks to the NYTimes for continuing what I consider the best reporting on the plight of New Orleans.
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"As it stands now, the planning process is a cause for both hope and rage. It awakens us to the reality of what Americans are capable of and what our government is not."
Meanwhile, those who lack the means or assistance to gut their homes and board them up, are at risk of having their properties appropriated by a city government that has shown an amazing lack of ability at doing anything positive with the thousands of blighted properties that existed before Katrina.
And thanks to the NYTimes for continuing what I consider the best reporting on the plight of New Orleans.
- jimlouis 8-08-2006 3:28 pm