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The 'Prince of New Urbanism' In New Orleans

Posted by: Mike Lydon
Thanks to: Ben Brown
13 December 2006 - 5:00am

Art critic Doug MacCash discusses everything NOLA with renowned architect and urban planner, Andres Duany.

"To hear some people talk, you'd think architect and urban planner Andrés Duany is the devil. They'd have us resist with religious zeal his designs for a newer, better post-Katrina New Orleans. Given a chance, Duany would damn the Crescent City to a future of cleanliness, orderliness and artificiality. He would do to us what he did to those poor suntanned zombies who live in Seaside, Fla., his signature 1981 ultra-planned development that made him infamous among the world's architectural aesthetes.

He must be scorned and shunned.

The trouble is, he's just so darned reasonable -- not to mention charming."

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Source: The Times Picayune, December 10, 2006
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Avant Gardism In New Orleans

Submitted by Charles Siegel on Wed, 12/13/2006 - 13:35.

The article says that "some people" would "have us resist with religious zeal his [Duany's] designs for a newer, better post-Katrina New Orleans," and the author is surprized that there is no opposition to his designs among residents.

This should not be surprizing. The Avant-Gardists criticizing Duany's work are a small clique who do not represent the vast majority of people in New Orleans.

Scroll down a bit and check out the description of a panel discussion of New Orleans at
http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2006/11/portland_picks_.html

Charles Siegel

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