ok so the links didn't work

you'll have to do the copy and paste method:

http://www.thevestigesproject.org/web/home/html

http://www.ny2no.net/lakeview/

http://ny2no.net/lakeview/home-new-orleans/

Also here is a picture from Jan's LakeviewS piece called "Biography of a House". I forgot to mention that the string of photographs sits at the water line, so you can see how much water this neighborhood got. It's especially scary because most of the homes are one-story like this one. Lakeviews now looks like a ghost town, with the exception of small clusters of "flipped" homes every couple blocks that are reinhabited.



A very tricky question in this city is whether areas like Lakeview, the Lower 9th and East New Orleans should be resettled given that they are fundamentally unsafe neighborhoods to live in, and the protection provided by the Army Corps in the last two years is not sufficient. These neighborhoods will likely flood again. However it's also in these neighborhoods where a lot of the poorer and racially diverse communities lived before the storm (although Lakeview is a wealthier neighborhood), whereas the beautiful French Quarter and Garden District were spared because they are on higher ground (it makes sense that those neighborhoods make up the original New Orleans before it spread into the marshier low-lying land to the North and East.) It is extremely problematic to tell a huge population of New Orleans residents that they cannot move back to their neighborhoods, especially when that population is largely black, and fits into a lower income bracket. When the Bring New Orleans Back commission announced after the storm that certain neighborhoods should not be resettled, people were furious. But what is the solution then? These people and their families will likely experience this type of devastation to their homes again if they move back.