Neighborhoods Could Return To Marshland In New Orleans

The city's official blueprint for redevelopment will call for shrinking the footprint of New Orleans.

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January 10, 2006, 11:00 AM PST

The blueprint "will recommend that residents be allowed to return and rebuild anywhere they like, no matter how damaged or vulnerable the neighborhood, according to several members of the mayor's rebuilding commissionâ€¦But ultimately, the areas that fail to attract a critical mass of residents in 12 months will probably not survive as residential neighborhoods...and are likely to end up as marshland as the city's population declines and its footprint shrinks."

"...a study by the Rand Corporation [estimated] that in three years the city would have a population of no more than 275,000, down more than 40 percent from its pre-hurricane population of 465,000."

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Sunday, January 8, 2006 in The New York Times

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