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1 year after Katrina
George Bush may have allocated more than $100B to rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged gulf coast - but things still don't seem to have changed much in the poorer parts of New Orleans.
More at
The Toronto Star 26.08.06
Cars are still wrapped around utility poles and street signs lie where Katrina left them. A statue of the Virgin Mary, swathed in an American flag, sits in front of an abandoned house, and on the boulevard on Caffin St. a chair, minus legs, remains where it was tossed.
Repopulating New Orleans East, [local urban designer Allen Eskew] says, would compound a tragedy because people should never have been allowed to live on that swampland in the first place.
New Orleans East is a relic of a larger New Orleans of the 1960s, before the white flight from the city reduced the population, he says.
But to eliminate that inner suburb, you have to tell people they really can't go home again.
More at
The Toronto Star 26.08.06
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