Experts Gather To Discuss Rebuilding Gulf Coast

More than 200 architects and city planners gather to talk about rebuilding the Gulf Coast. “On Wednesday, the opening day, many participants suggested that while they intended to respect the local character, they did not hope to replicate what existed before the hurricane. ‘People know that this took a wrong turn somewhere. People know this has become honky-tonk, and this is the chance to get it right. This place has lost its neighborhood structure over the last 50 years. This is a chance to rezone it in a much finer grain, so people can walk to the corner store, kids can walk to school’.”