Christopher Morris
Christopher Morris
areas balancing city exactly flood happy including left medium outside rural secure somewhere trick
The trick will be balancing how, on one hand, there probably shouldn't be a city there at all, with the other extreme, which is that it should be rebuilt exactly how it was. Most people, including myself, think it should be somewhere in between. I think the happy medium could be rethinking flood control, making the city more secure than it is now, but making it so that some areas outside the city, some of the marshy, rural areas, are just left to nature.
businesses city french given orleans places quarter small sort town
If just about all the businesses packed up and moved, and you just had the French Quarter and touristy places like that, it could become sort of like a St. Augustine - a small town for tourists, ... It wouldn't be a city anymore. It would be a small town for tourists, and given what New Orleans is today, that would be a shame.