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Squandered Heritage
October 16th, 2006
Squandered Heritage is a project of Think New Orleans that is focused on the issue of preserveration. Since hurricane Katrina, the city’s office of Saftey and Permits has been overwhelmed. They’ve been issuing permits for demolition without real notification. Property owners have taken advantage of this to demolish homes, historic homes, that were not damanged in the hurricane.
There have been a lot of demolitions in dry neighborhoods that would have been hotly contested before the storm, but now, people are to preoccupied with the recovery of the city to notice.
The first phase of this project is to organize people to take photographs and write posts about structures on the demolition list. The next phase is to place these homes on a notification map.
