New Orleans 2.0

where do we go from here?

Published on September 8, 2005 By InfoGeek In Current Events

With the water being removed, alone with the inhabitants, New Orleans will very soon be evacuated. Now, let’s assume that the levees will be reinforced so that this can never happen again.

With 80% of the city flooded with what is now a lethal liquid, most of the structures will have to be removed, destroyed. Let us also assume that the desire and the means are there to rebuild the city.

We have an unprecedented question/situation. The actual rebuilding of a destroyed city.

But…

What type of city do we build?

Do we try to build it as it was, and risk a Disneyland affect?

Do we go modern or suburban, and possibly remove what made the Big Easy, New Orleans?

If it is true that certain cities have their own spirit, can it be restored?

Thoughts?

IG

Comments

Dr Guy

on Sep 08, 2005

Build it like the Federal Reserve Building in Richmond.

joeKnowledge

on Sep 08, 2005

Don't rebiuld it at all.

If 2.0 happens, it would have to be a city on stilts. No need for worry about being below sea level because your above it. The water below, sewage system, pumps, and other such nice stuff. The city stops sinking (becuase of the lack of floods bringing in new land minerals, the city has been sinking for years) and the delta is saved (giving more room between the city and the Gulf of Mexico).

How U like me plan?

Dr Guy

on Sep 08, 2005

If 2.0 happens, it would have to be a city on stilts.

Close!

InfoGeek

on Sep 08, 2005

Build it like the Federal Reserve Building in Richmond.

If the pix are right. It's a box?

Stilts aren't the answer. We just need to make sure the levees are up to the task.

IG

bakerstreet

on Sep 08, 2005

I have to agree with joeknowledge. If it is rebuilt, not a single inch should be below sea level. Is the money required worth it? I don't have the right to say, since I don't live there (though my tax dollars will go toward it.)

If they engineer it right, I'm sure they can do it. God only knows the waste and corruption involved, though. Given we're spending tens of billions of dollars just to react to it, it is going to be the GNP of 100 small nations to rebuild.

Daiwa

on Sep 08, 2005

Being where it is, sea level or above would help, but only so much. Another Cat4 or Cat5 would still be devastating. I also don't know that filling in the entire city to bring it up to sea level is affordable or feasible. The city has been sinking as long as its been there and a rebuilt city would just start sinking again. If folks are going to live there, a levee system will remain essential. The scope of the problem there is just too big to get my mind around.

Cheers,
Daiwa

Angloesque

on Sep 08, 2005

Personally, I've always wanted to ride a gondola in Venice. Why not?

-A.

Dr Guy

on Sep 09, 2005

If the pix are right. It's a box?

No, the parking decks are on the lower levels. So when the river floods, no damage. Just stinking parking spaces. The Signet bank building is the same (but only 10 floors).

Dr Guy

on Sep 09, 2005

Or better, like the houses on the outerbanks. Nothing is built on the ground. The bottom is a walk in basement.

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