(This article was published in “The Louisiana Weekly” in the Feb. 25, 2013 edition.)
New Orleans officials hope to move residents toward a consensus this spring about whether to remove or keep the 1960s-era Claiborne expressway that destroyed African American neighborhoods in Treme, the Seventh Ward and vicinity.
Last week, Peter Park, a Denver-based city planner who oversaw the tear-down of Milwaukee’s freeway, advised New Orleanians to “get involved in the Claiborne corridor study and own the plan. This isn’t a government project, it’s a people project.” Park, a Harvard University 2012 Loeb fellow, spoke to a packed room at the Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center in New Orleans on Feb. 20. He was joined by John Norquist, president of the Congress for the New Urbanism in San Francisco and a former Milwaukee mayor.
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