The 'Prince of New Urbanism' In New Orleans

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

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December 13, 2006, 5:00 AM PST

"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."

Thanks to Ben Brown

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