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.
Category: Land Use
Reporting on how land, space, and development shape the future of New Orleans. This category examines zoning decisions, neighborhood planning, environmental impact, and the balance between growth and preservation—highlighting who benefits, who’s affected, and what’s at stake.
Eyes on The Fly: How structural racism subtly undercuts plans for a ‘public good’
A deeper look at plans to remove another section of a public park from general use.
Evicted: How a landlord jumping into the short-term rental market cost us our home
We were model tenants — and then came the vacate order.
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.
The strip-club moratorium is just a first step; much more needs to be done
Bourbon Street merchant proposes a way to rein in the proliferation of strip clubs.
Bidding adieu to the Vieux Carré as we once knew and loved it
Rich retirees from Dallas now enjoy the sanitized ambience of a neighborhood New Orleanians used to live in.
Missing Home: A look at what we demolished in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Thousands of houses and buildings were razed after the storm. We went back to some of those properties to see what's there now. What we found shows how some parts of the city have rebounded while others struggle, just as they did before the storm.
Obama administration fell short in rebuilding rental housing, speeding up Road Home awards
Rents are rising faster than incomes in New Orleans, and federally-funded rebuilding resulted in fewer units than planned.
Proposed zoning ordinance amendments: a gift to the booze biz; raw deal for neighborhoods
Council member's 11th hour CZO tweaks sabotage efforts to control club noise and neighborhood liquor outlets.
Scramble for variances already making a mockery of the city’s new zoning code
The new CZO could end up being little more than a ream of wasted paper.
