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• The Daily Report

  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, frenchman street, cafe du monde, next urban summit, cab drivers | 0

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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• The Daily Report

  What’s Old is New Again in New Orleans

  Diana Lind | Tue, Aug 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: new orleans, diana lind, nola yurp, ariella cohen, frenchman street, cafe du monde, next urban summit, cab drivers | 0

  What’s New Orleans like these days? It depends on who you ask.I went down to New Orleans for the Next Urban Summit expecting to see a city in tatters. Instead, I found that NOLA looks better than I’d ever seen it before. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough.
  

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• NAC News

  Let the Good Conversations Roll

  Diana Lind | Tue, Jul 22nd, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: new orleans, nola yurp | 1

  NOLA Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals is serving up its first Next Urban Summit this week — where should a young urbanist go if she’s been on the Katrina damage tour, seen the Garden District, been to jazz in the French Quarter?

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• NAC News

  The All-New Next American City: website, magazine, certain staffers… all receive makeovers.

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Feb 23rd, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, new orleans, website, magazine, caffeine, the street, staffers, makeover, daily report, 24hrs | 0

  Loyal readers and friends,

  Over the next few weeks, you will notice something a little different about Next American City. No, we’re not going dot com on you, and despite the rumors of a merge with Exxon, we are still your humble, sincere, national organization and quarterly magazine, striving to make things better for cities and the people that live in them.

  The first thing you will notice is that we’re no longer The Next American City. We’re simply Next American City. We figured…

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• The Daily Report

  Weekend tidbits: Why You Should Hate Cement And Love Oakland

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Jan 28th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, new orleans, oakland, housing surplus, historic preservation philadelphia, cement, green supportive housing | 0

  Housing Surplus in New Orleans

  “Thousands of people are looking for a place to live in this city. Many thousands of houses are vacant or for sale, and acres of land sit empty. But turning potential housing into inhabited homes is proving to be a major challenge, even for a city that survived the fury of Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the levees. For those who need shelter the most, these houses are out of reach.”

  Chicago Seniors Psyched About Public Transport

  “State…

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• Headlines

  Murder rate rising in Louisiana’s major cities; U.S.’s obsession with Obama’s race

  Matt Stroud | Tue, Jan 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, barack obama, new orleans, murder rate rising in louisiana, u.s. obsession with obama, baton rouge | 0

  We lead with this: “FBI figures show murder rate rising in Louisiana’s major cities.” From Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Kelly:

  ‘‘Murder is the single category that gets the most attention. And it’s the one we have the least ability to effect. Most murders are done by people who know each other, many are done in private, and almost all are done without much planning and forethought. Those are almost impossible to prevent.’’

  How do you like that?

  Now: some Obama commentary via Jesse…

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• The Daily Report

  Activists, homeless advocates protest New Orleans housing complex

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: hayley richardson, new orleans, protests, b.w. cooper, architecture reflects immigrant population, post bloomberg nyc | 1

  BREAKING NEWS:

  “Activists, including affordable housing and homeless advocate Jamie “Bork” Loughner, have chained themselves to bulldozers this morning at the B.W. Cooper housing complex in New Orleans. The government this week started demolishing buildings at the B.W. Cooper complex, which has 1000 buildings and is located across the highway from the Superdome. The city this week delayed demolition at three other complexes, but started demolishing B.W. Cooper over the objections of…

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• The Daily Report

  The Next American Project and Brad Pitt: ‘ideal for traditional crawfish boil.’

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Dec 7th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new orleans, brad pitt, crawfish broil, american project, make it right, louisiana | 0

  On Monday, the Times reported on the results of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right design competition for New Orleans. One of the winning entries was a jelly bean of a house with wide front steps, which were described as “ideal for traditional crawfish boil.” Architect Steven B. Bingler, who actually lives in New Orleans, said that residents had asked him for “a house where the baby can be sleeping in the back, the mama making red beans in the kitchen and the grandpa can be on the front porch…

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• The Daily Report

  Charming Streetcars, Brad Pitt Hearts New Orleans, Walkin’ (or not) in Philly, more…

  Hayley Richardson | Tue, Dec 4th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, new orleans, chicago, brazilians leave united states, great lakes, housing competition, brad pitt, charming streetcars | 1

  Streetcar or Light Rail? It’s All in the Name

  “It bugs me that such an awkward, engineering-specific term — light rail — has become the common one for the trains that run on fixed rails with overhead electric wires that have been built in dozens of cities across the United States. (The term comes from the fact that light rail is an alternative to “heavy rail” systems — subways or inter-city trains that weigh more and can carry more people.) I support the mass transit systems,…

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• The Daily Report

  The Phantom Urban Debate

  Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 22nd, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: obama, new orleans, scott gabriel knowles, katrina, presidential campaign, times picayunne, edwards, phantom urban debate, urban debate | 0

  This week the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the locations for the three candidate match-ups next fall: Oxford, Mississippi, Nashville, and Hempstead, New York.  Louisiana elected officials and New Orleanians immediately decried the Crescent City’s absence from the list of three.  Senator Mary Landrieu noted in a Times-Picayune article that New Orleans was the only city of the sixteen applicants to have bipartisan support among the candidates, including Democratic Senators…

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• The Daily Report

  Streetwise: Learning to cope with flooding—always—in New Orleans

  Matt Stroud | Mon, Oct 29th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: new orleans, hurricane katrina, flooding, carey clouse, lake ponchartrain | 0

  Flooding in New Orleans is a Sensitive Issue
  By Carey Clouse

  Flooding in New Orleans is a sensitive issue. For it was the water—not the wind—that devastated this city in 2005. And even two years after the storm, residents remain painfully aware of the lasting destruction that Hurricane Katrina inflicted.

  Violent waters toppled houses and rearranged cars, rocked signage and shattered windows. In the weeks after the storm, floodwaters (PDF) stagnated in houses, rotting out wood and…

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