New Orleans Planning for a Better Future
Jonas Bendiksen
September 2006
Katrina exposed the city’s deepest flaws to the world, laying bare the grinding poverty and segregation that had created an entrenched and vulnerable population...
The reconstruction process held out the prospect of a better city—one that would be more open and collaborative, and that would extend more opportunities to its residents…
As a New York Times article later observed, there was an urge to rebuild “that is as primal as the force that pushes grass up through the cracks in the sidewalk.”
