[Carfreeliving] Rebuilding New Orleans as an "Afro-Caribbean Paris"

[Jason Henderson]

Interesting. The developer, Kabacoff, got a super walmart built on prime 
real estate on the natural levee and in the process removed several 
thousand low income blacks.  This prime urban location remained dry 
during the floods. This was part of one of those Hope VI projects - very 
close to downtown, excellent location. Wasted on a walmart super center 
and upscale condos.  A massive social justice disaster in Nola. The 
displaced were of course dispersed out into the sprawl. Many were 
displaced to an African American sprawl in what is called New Orleans 
East, where section 8 apartment complexes were filled with former public 
housing residents (completely car-oriented slums). The transit service 
out in Nola East makes Muni look like Zurich. And many displaced were 
carless households. This area flooded real bad, total destruction with a 
cesspool of toxics now saturating the ground.  Pretty shameful thing for 
Kabacoff to participate in. I wish NPR would do its homework.

If Kabacoff is in control look for Disney on the Bayou, a whitewashed 
image of NOLA. You will get "Paris" or "Prague" in the form of an 
upscale playground. His interests have been in  upscale hotels and 
condos. But as it looks right now, the left is eviscerated in both 
Louisiana and across the country, and Kabacoff comes out looking 
"progressive" compared to the junta in control of this country. Pretty 
sad state of affairs all around.

-jh

Tom Radulovich wrote:

>This morning, NPR had a story on the proposal of a local developer to  
>create a dense, walkable New Orleans; the audio file can be found at:
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>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4866931
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