The Trouble with City Planning

摘要

Early in her introduction to The Trouble with City Planning, the author and former director of City Planning in New Orleans, Kristina Ford, offers a critical insight into a theme that runs through her book: Although I didn't perceive it while talking to the reporter so soon after the hurricane, I began to think in the following days that the city awash in flood and its own bad decisions might actually be experiencing a rare opportunity. For in one terrible night and day, a new recourse for correcting old mistakes had become thinkable. In the face of this destruction, rebuilding and reuniting the city's absent population were now unarguably necessary.