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The 'Dream Team' To Rebuild New Orleans

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Practice of New Urbanism Listserv
23 September 2005 - 5:00am

The Nation magazine outlines their leadership, architecture and planning 'dream team' for rebuilding New Orleans.

"Grandiose talk aside, in the practical realm the skill, talent and experience is available to take this catastrophe and turn it into a political, social and design marvel. This thing doesn't have to be another hack politician, crony boy, bureaucratic morass that produces more excuses than homes.

...Among the architects and designers qualified by experience and prizewinning results to collaborate with grassroots organizations are: Urban Design Associates in Pittsburgh; Calthorpe Associates in Berkeley; Pyatok Architects in Oakland; Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists in Pasadena; and, in Boston, Goody Clancy."

Full Story: Visionaries Wanted
Source: The Nation, September 21, 2005
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