Katrina: What will become of "The Jewel of the South?"

I was unexpectedly moved by Slate’s architecture critic Witold Rybczynski writing about the cultural legacy of New Orleans – so many levels of loss and sadness with this tragedy.

Rybczynski writes about the “distinctive urban fabric” of New Orleans, now possibly forever lost:

It is—was—a rare example of French city-building in the United States (Detroit, Mobile, and St. Louis are others, but New Orleans is the most fully realized and, until a few days ago, the best preserved).

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