Re-Newing New Orleans: A Look at Why New Urbanism is the Key to Rebuilding New Orleans
The widespread destruction of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina represents a unique opportunity to rebuild the public infrastructure and residential landscape of a major city on a different set of principles for urban planning and design. This exploratory article reviews the social and demographic condition of the city of New Orleans before and after the national disaster, presents new urbanism as a potential framework for urban renewal, and provides a case study of the Hill District in Pittsburgh as a model for local policymakers.
Urban Social Theory: City, Self, and Society
1. THE ROOTS OF SOCIAL THEORY 2. URBAN HISTORY AND SOCIAL THEORY 3. COMMUNITY, MODERNITY, ALIENATION AND ANOMIE 4. IMAGES OF THE CITY AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING 5. URBAN CRIME AND DEVIANCE 6. THE DIVIDED CITY, INEQUALITY, AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT 7. GLOBALISATION, LOCAL AND CENTRAL STATE REALTIONS AND POLITICS 8. PLACE AND POLITICS 9. PLANNING, PROFESSIONALISATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 10.THE POLITICS OF TENURE 11.THE FAMILY, GENDER AND THE EFFECTS OF LOCATION 12.POSTMODERNITY AND THE END OF UTOPIA
Comment on Charles C. Bohl's “New urbanism and the city: potential applications and implications for distressed inner‐city neighborhoods"—the politics of design: The new urbanists vs. the grass roots
Abstract This article briefly reviews the origins of New Urbanism and its manifesto as emerging from the social change movements of the 1960s, which evolved out of ideas of a previous generation of American and European designers living through the rise of modern industrialization. Arising from the same turmoil of the 1960s, and parallel to the New Urbanists, evolved a more loosely affiliated network of progressive academic and practicing planners and architects who have aligned themselves with disenfranchised underclasses not benefiting from the wealth of the postwar era and who take direction not from a manifesto but from a body of thinking linked to a broader intellectual and political agenda. This group works primarily with grassroots organizations in lower‐income communities and intentionally stays out of the limelight to better serve its constituents. The article concludes with ideas for possible collaboration between these professional groups serving different ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.