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Green Pre-fab Piece in the Atlantic
Post-Kartrina and the Trailer Trash debacle, interest among designers in green pre-fab housing units has soared. (We wrote about a very expensive and, to us, not very plausible design a few weeks ago.) The Atlantic has an interesting piece in the December issue about New Orleans housing activism and green building. Some snips:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency shuttered its long-term recovery office about six months later, after a squabble with the city over who would pay for the planning process. Since then, depending on whom you talk to, government at all levels has been passive and slow-moving at best, or belligerent and actively harmful at worst.
In the absence of strong central leadership, the rebuilding has atomized into a series of independent neighborhood projects. And this has turned New Orleans—moist, hot, with a fecund substrate that seems to allow almost anything to propagate—into something of a petri dish for ideas about housing and urban life…. if you step back and look at the big picture, in fact it’s the most efficient pattern possible, because all those random activities actually create a very efficient sort of discovery process.
