Big Plans Are Slow to Bear Fruit in New Orleans

Big Plans Are Slow to Bear Fruit in New Orleans
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108P.shtml
Adam Nossiter reports for The New York Times: "In March 2007, city officials finally unveiled their plan to redevelop New Orleans and begin to move out of the post-Hurricane Katrina morass. It was billed as the plan to end all plans, with Paris-like streetscape renderings and promises of parks, playgrounds and 'cranes on the skyline' within months. But a year after a celebratory City Hall kickoff, there have been no cranes and no Parisian boulevards."