Please read “Richard Layman’s”:http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/ piece about the “Global Green”:http://competition.globalgreen.org/vote2.php Competition in Holy Cross. I hope that the issues of the future will be addressed in the rebuilding, but if we do not embrace the past the structures will fail.

Karen Gadbois co-founded The Lens. She now covers New Orleans government issues and writes about land use. With television reporter Lee Zurik she exposed widespread misuse of city recovery funds and led...