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November 7, 2005
ASLA Sponsors Gulf Coast Rebuilding Series at the National Building Museum
The first program will focus on New Orleans and feature Suzanne Turner, FASLA, emerita professor of landscape architecture, Louisiana State University.
Building in the Aftermath
Rebuilding the “Big Easy”—Not So Easy
November 14, Monday, 6:30–8:30 pm
National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Suzanne Turner, FASLA, emerita professor of landscape architecture, Louisiana State University
Paul Farmer, AICP, executive director, American Planning Association
Richard Moe, president, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Thomas Campanella, urban planning professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and coeditor of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
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In response to the unprecedented challenges of rebuilding hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, ASLA, the National Building Museum, Lafarge North America, and the American Planning Association are collaborating with major nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private industry, to organize and present an extended series of programs entitled Building in the Aftermath, with the first program in the series focusing on New Orleans.
While ideas about the future of New Orleans have ranged from proposals to level entire neighborhoods to calls to preserve as many historic structures as possible, what is undisputable is that New Orleans is one of the world’s great cities, with an unparalleled architectural and cultural legacy. It is also becoming clear that a significant percentage of the city’s buildings are either intact, only modestly damaged, or substantially salvageable, meaning that some of the early calls for “moving” New Orleans greatly overstated the extent of the destruction. Even so, the task of preserving, restoring, and, where necessary, rebuilding is enormous and will require difficult decisions.
A distinguished panel of leaders in urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, architecture, and landscape architecture, including Suzanne Turner, FASLA, emerita professor of landscape architecture at Louisiana State University, will share advice about the best strategies for rebuilding the Big Easy, before engaging in a free-wheeling discussion moderated by Robert Ivy, FAIA, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record.
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