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This easygoing lethargy might actually serve New Orleans well as it rebuilds. The city needs to restore itself authentically rather than produce a theme-park re-creation. It needs shotguns, not cold condos. Its talented preservation and community-planning experts should be offered the chance to devise a land-use approach that revives charming old neighborhood patterns rather than producing alienating cul-de-sacs or artificial quaintness. It has the opportunity to rebuild itself in a way that emerges from its rich heritage while guarding against any projects that would sap its soul...
...years since 9/11, ground zero has been excavated, purified and turned into a place of pilgrimage. When completed, the new World Trade Center memorial will attract 10 million visitors a year, its handlers expect. Ground zero has inspired dozens of books, several documentaries and passionate calls to rebuild and reclaim the hole in the ground with something both respectful and profitable. The result? Sixteen barren acres of good intentions...
Last week Silverstein added Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki to the roster of architects designing the office towers. "Enough words. Enough talk," Silverstein said after coming to terms with the Port Authority by giving up some control of the site. "Rebuild." The results of that rebuilding could determine whether the downtown core will ever regain importance as a business center...
...hanging over ground zero is the fate of its controversial centerpiece. The plan for the Freedom Tower has always been more emotional response than business proposition, born out of a desire to show the world that Americans would not be cowed by terrorists. "We have a public responsibility to rebuild ground zero, and it's incumbent on us to build a tower of freedom and democracy," says Charles Gargano, vice chairman for the Port Authority. "We need a signature building. It's not just a real estate project...
...problems in housing, unemployment, education, exclusion - you name it!" adds the Minister. Borloo calls his policy package a "Marshall Plan for the banlieues," and its scale and ambition almost justify the bombast. Since joining the government in 2002, his efforts have mobilized over €35 billion in funding to rebuild or renovate France's most troubled housing projects. In 2005 alone, ground was broken for construction of over 340,000 new and restored housing units. The Minister has also launched new employment-training and job-creation programs tailored to young people that aim to create at least 1.3 million jobs...