The Fight Over New Orleans' Architectural Past

With the cultural history of New Orleans at stake, scores of planners, conservationists, lobbyists and insurance adjustors are locked in a battle to decide the fate of the reconstruction of New Orleans.

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October 16, 2005, 1:00 PM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"...as residents return to reopened neighborhoods and teams of historians, architects, preservationists, conservators and insurance adjustors inspect the damage, there's anxiety in some quarters that government will move too quickly to bulldoze huge swaths of the city.

In any other city, this might be no big deal from an architectural standpoint; in New Orleans, it's a really big deal. And not just in the French Quarter or wealthy Uptown and the Garden District, which largely escaped the flooding."

FULL STORY: A 'new' New Orleans?

Saturday, October 15, 2005 in USA Today

History / Preservation Louisiana

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