Stunning indifference to community resistance
Author Archives: Roberta Brandes Gratz
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Going off the grid: Canal streetcars rumble toward a big mistake
Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Jane Jacobs’ victories against Robert Moses saved a city and also empowered women
The “housewife” who took on the “Master Builder.”
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Remembering Bill Borah: Killing a French Quarter expressway was only the start
An urbanist who fought stupidity — and paid a price.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
What would Jane Jacobs make of our post-Katrina transition from ‘death’ to ‘life’?
A look at the post-Katrina city through the eyes of urban planning’s most important 20th-century visionary.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
What to do with short-term rentals: legalize and police them? Good luck with that!
The shift to B&Bs — illegal and otherwise — is worsening the city’s housing crisis.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Holy Cross condo plan: Are we already abandoning post-Katrina reforms?
The community senses that its input, including a 74-page argument to uphold currently legal height limits, is losing ground to an overblown development scheme.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
So what if Holy Cross towers defy the zoning code — it’s only the Lower Ninth
Even cut back to 60 feet, the towers would be half again as tall as current zoning allows.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Monumental mistake: Demolishing World Trade Center to build a tourist attraction
Small and modest projects always exceed expectations while big ones never fulfill theirs.