New Orleans under reconstruction: the crisis of planning

Foreword : Sittin' on the front porch with a shotgun / Mike Davis

Introduction / Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot

Part I. Introductory perspectives : What should New Orleans do? / Denise Scott Brown

Disaster apartheid: a world of green zones and red zones / Naomi Klein

Beloved community / Rebecca Solnit

New Orleans, nature, and the apocalyptic trope / Amy Murphy

Part II. Planning perspectives : The once and future New Orleans of planners Milton Medary and Harland Bartholomew, 1920-1960 / Carol McMichael Reese

New Orleans under reconstruction: a crisis in planning and human security / M. Christine Boyer

Ethical dilemmas in post-Katrina New Orleans planning / Melissa Harris-Perry and William M Harris Sr.

Lessons learned: obstacles to implementing a resilient vision for New Orleans / Wm. Raymond Manning

The plan for the twenty-first century: New Orleans 2030 / David Dixon

Citizen advocacy and planning policy / Jeanne P. Nathan

Beneath the underdog: urban design and the social contract / David Lee

Elbows together, hearts apart: institutional reform, economic opportunity, and social trust in post-Katrina New Orleans / Michael A. Cowan

Hurricanes, civil unrest, and the restoration of the American city: lessons from Newark for a new planning response / Toni L. Griffin

Part III. Reconstructing domicile, housing (singly considered) : Restoring the real New Orleans, retaining the culture / Andrés Duany

Recovery chaos: urban neighborhood redevelopment after disaster / Bradford Powers

Still searching for higher ground / Byron Mouton

Projects : Single-family housing : Tarpon House / University of Arizona ; L9 Pil-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

Landlocked / Denise Hoffman Brandt

Reposition in place, no big plans: the adjudicated properties project for the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East / James Dart

Green.O.LA: a model block for Holy Cross / Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen

Projects : Multi-unit housing : Eco-shells / 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

Projects : Public building : The Hill: Martin Luther King School / MVRDV ; Schools within school prototype for public schools: to learn, must New Orleans confront its 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. Reconstruction cultural landscapes : Architectural activism through multiple scales, venues, programs, and collaborations / Derek James Hoeferlin

Landscape agency in urban revitalization / Elisabeth Mossop

Pontchartrain Park + Gentilly Woods landscape manual / Jane Wolff and Carol McMichael Reese

Projects : Cultural landscapes : 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 / West8

Part VII. Urban analysis : Haunted housing: eco-vanguardism and eviction in New Orleans / Yates McKee

Justice reinvestment New Orleans / Laura Kurgan

The new Algiers project / Terreform

Projects : Urban analysis : The Brewery Pod / City College of New York ; Claiborne Stitch / City College of New York ; We are all players in the LOLA 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

Beyond the line / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip de Cunha

Ground Zero / J. David Waggonner III

Mapping the aftermath and charting new strategies / Anthony Fontenot with Jakob Rosenzwieg

Projects : Flood mitigation and infrastructure : 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.