Re: Plans for rebuilding New Orleans

Subject: Re: Plans for rebuilding New Orleans
From: Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:34:24 -0400


It's an interesting concept in technical communication: if you assume
NO has to be rebuilt from scratch, how do you convince people "No,
don't do the same thing over again, try something new?"

Usually infrastructure upgrades have to be "backwards compatible,"
yes? That limits options and adds to costs. But NO's infrastructure
has been wiped out. There's the tempting possibility to rebuild it
as the best imaginable city. I'd like to see that, but I'm not a
qualified civic planner.

But to keep this tied to tech communications -- how could someone,
hypothetically qualified, submit a proposal for rebuilding NO?


On 9/7/05, Joe Campo <joe -dot- campo -at- solidworks -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Kenneth Nuckols added:
>
>
> If this model comes to pass it might be the first major American city in
> which the number of people actually exceeds the number of automobiles.
> It could be refreshing to see a city in this country figure out how to
> break its addiction to petroleum, even if that "cure" is imposed by
> forces beyond human control."
>
> Are you perhaps a landscape architect? Your suggestion might be an
> incredible solution, especially when it seems the entire city is going
> to have to be pretty much rebuilt.
>
> I'm wondering if officials would consider such an innovative solution



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