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Don’t Miss: August 30th Premiere Features New Orleans’ Local Businesses
Don’t miss the World Premiere of Independent America: Rising from Ruins, the inspiring documentary of New Orleans’ independent business owners and their critical role in the city’s recovery and resilience. See the trailer.
August 30, 2008, at 6 pm, upstairs at Massey’s Professional Outfitters. Discussion with filmmaker Hanson Hosein of HRH Media to follow. Space is limited; call 232-7821 to reserve a seat.
Aug 10 2008
In the Zone: Lafitte and Broad
This in-depth July 17 WWL-TV video clip presents a vision shared by the City and her citizens for the Lafitte Greenway.
Jul 21 2008
Video of Lafitte Greenway
The Times-Picayune has posted a video slideshow of the 2008 Lafitte Greenway Awareness Hike
Jun 28 2008
What Is a City?
Presentation and Book Signing
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | 6 pm
Octavia Books, 513 Octavia Street
What is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina presented by Phil Steinberg, Jordan Flaherty & Jacob Wagner
The experience of catastrophe forces us to reconsider not only the material but the abstract and virtual qualities of cities. It requires us to revisit how we think about, plan for, and live in them.
Join the contributors to What Is a City? as they unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just toward New Orleans, but toward cities in general.
Aug 10 2008
News
Energy Efficiency, Affordability Within Reach
The cost of energy, rising for years, has been one of the more vexing issues for New Orleans residents and businesses since Katrina. Entergy New Orleans has just announced that natural gas prices are set to spike once again this summer. These costs will be passed on to us in the form of higher bills, through a fuel adjustment charge for metered electricity use and metered gas. In the face of this daunting situation, we are not powerless. Read more >
Jun 23 2008 | Start the Discussion
Support the Charter Amendments Today
With the Council’s approval of the amendments, once finalized, New Orleans will have an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond the dysfunctional, special-interest-driven planning process that has plagued the city for decades, and to create a visionary one that all our citizens can be proud of. Read more >
May 27 2008 | 7 Replies
News Roundup
- New Orleans Repeating Deadly Levee Blunders
Aug 24 2008 | AP Wire - Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Microchip Plant?
Aug 18 2008 | AP Wire - High Gas Prices Have North Shore Commuters Considering Southern Living
Jul 23 2008 | New Orleans CityBusiness - A New Fashion Catches on in Paris: Cheap Bicycle Rentals
Jul 15 2008 | The New York Times - Path to Revitalization
Jul 14 2008 | The Times-Picayune
Projects
Greenway Businesses
What does a healthy business environment have to do with a healthy environment? Everything, if you ask Mike Massey, native New Orleanian and local business owner of Massey's Professional Outfitters.
Heritage Tourism in Mid-City
Preliminary findings from the research and analysis of the MidCity neighborhood conducted by the faculty and students of the Urban Planning + Design program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Stay Local!
A project of The Urban Conservancy, Stay Local! is a city-wide initiative for creating a strong economy based on locally owned and operated business. Stay Local! encourages consumers to shop locally while helping independent businesses compete more effectively.
Lafitte Greenway
Referred to by many names--the Lafitte Corridor, the Lafitte Greenway, the Old Carondelet Basin, the Carondelet Walk, etc.--this strip of land connecting the French Quarter with Bayou St. John and Lake Pontchartrain has a long history of linking various neighborhoods and could once again serve the city as an inviting and uniting public park.
