New Orleans Talking on Wade’s World on KABF with Michael Robinson Cohen about his Yale School of Architecture studio project to design a hundred thousand affordable housing units for San Francisco, or any other city that understands the problem and the potential, led us naturally to co-living. Michael and his gang believe there is tremendous promise …
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Post-Katrina Gentrification Battle Heats Up in New Orleans
New Orleans Sometimes where there is smoke, there is in fact a lot of fire, and the raging heat around gentrification is steadily increasing in post-Katrina New Orleans. Wendell Pierce, the well-known actor from HBO’s “The Wire” and “Treme,” and a New Orleans native, partnered with a local pal, politician, and operator, slung the charge …
Signs at the Borderland of Gentrification
New Orleans In New Orleans in the Bywater-Marigny neighborhoods where I live and work were in the throes of a long drawn out, desultory stretch for decades since the 1980s. We were going to be “hot” one day, but who knew when. Into the latter years of the 20th Century, one thing or another like the …