AFTER THE STORM
A Gentle Manifesto for a Neighbourhood in New Orleans
Mark Gilbert and Kristian Faschingeder (ed.)
Germ./Engl., 84 p.,numerous color images, 30 x 22,5 cm, paperback, 2009
ISBN 978-3-85160-156-5
€ 24,00
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Tulane/Gravier, a traditionally working-class, mixed-use area in New Orleans,
was flooded but not catastrophically damaged by Katrina, it has become
a political shuttlecock in the post-hurricane battles over the city's
future. Large portions of it are threatened with demolition in order to
make room for the expansion of well-endowed institutions.
A group of young
designers under the aegis of Austro-American architect Mark Gilbert use
this book to propose an integrated set of architectural interventions
that could both preserve the neighborhood as well as to secure its economic
future. Developed out of careful social, historical and spatial analyses
of the district, After the Storm illustrates how this part of New Orleans
can be revived without destroying its living urban fabric.