To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild?
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Joel Garreau wrote a provocative article in the Washington Post that’s lit up the Web and — thanks to Potter, our office. We’re thinking about a rebuilding show for tomorrow, one that takes into account many of Garreau’s points: tourist New Orleans vs. poverty ravaged New Orleans; race and class in 21st century American urban planning; the checkered history of previous attempts at rebuilding cities; and, above all, what it means, past the feel-good phrase itself, when we talk about “rebuilding.”
Ideas — and blog posts, and possible guests, and recommended reading — are, as always, welcome.
What a difference a day makes. We have three guests now, including Joel Garreau, and are refining the shape of the hour.
Joel Garreau
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Author of Edge City and, most recently, Radical Evolution
Reporter for the Washington Post
[On the phone from Virginia]
Bill Shutkin
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Author of The Land That Could Be
President and CEO of the Orton Family Foundation
Research Affiliate at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning
[In a studio in Manchester, VT]
Pres Kabacoff
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CEO, Historic Restoration Inc.
New Orleans native and second generation developer
[On the phone from Houma, LA]