A lot of people don't like Kabacoff. I have mixed feelings. People don't like that his planned community done at the site of the razed St. Thomas projects co-opted with Walmart. But the architecture is at least an attempt at fitting the New Orleans look. At least he's doing something while other people just talk and bitch. However, I do like this quote from the same article, by, uh, now I can't find his name, anyway--"It's not the (New Urbanist) aesthetic that's wrong," he said, "it's the artificiality of something planned all at once. What we have in this city is something that developed over a very long period of time, with lots of incremental adjustments along the way. Sweeping utopian plans, I don't think would fit here. . . . Honestly I really fear the influx of experts."
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- jimlouis 11-15-2005 4:08 am