Vital blueprint for city’s future gets short shrift.
Category: Land Use
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
Florida Panhandle’s paradise lost: ‘New Urbanism’ gone awry
Boyhood beachcomber worries about Bywater
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Opinion
Rebuttal: Don’t blame soaring taxes on short-term rentals alone
A spirited defense of the ‘sharing economy.’
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Opinion
Short-term rentals create a long-term problem: soaring taxes for the rest of us
The Quarter has banned STRs outright. Why can’t less posh areas do the same?
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Opinion
Time to recognize the basic flaw in our whole approach to flood prevention
How many wake-up calls do we need before we go Dutch?
Posted inLand Use, Schools
What’s left of Booker T. Washington High School has been taken off National Register of Historic Places
Most of the school was demolished, and the remaining auditorium is not significant enough on its own.
Posted inLand Use, Opinion
Can it be saved? Art Deco classic needs — and deserves — landmark designation
Hearing Thursday could seal the fate of this neglected masterpiece.
Posted inLand Use
Four things we’ve learned by mapping Airbnb permits in New Orleans
The biggest one: Most short-term rental licenses are for entire homes or apartments.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use, Opinion
Monument fight now part of our heritage — but what to do with those pedestals?
What should replace Gen. Lee? Maybe no one.