New Urbanism : New Orleans style "leveeless" Russian Roulette
Open letter to the New York Times: On New Urbanism in the northern Gulf of Mexico
By I.R. Scott
The New Orleans region is in need of 250 billion dollar of new capital investments to restart its industrial economy.
The refusal of the oil and chemical companies to pay any major part of the trillion dollars of damages to the New Orleans industrial base and work force from the massive oil and chemical spills, ensure that the non-oil centric manufacturing sector will be very slow recovering.
Urban development is suffering from a major lack of a strong industrial economy, investment and the 17th Street that is still not repaired.
With no major investments coming into the region, many Northern Gulf of Mexico communities have turned to reinventing their life saving into levee less suicide French country style urban communities. These levee less French styled cheap modular communities are one storm away from another Bollix nightmare.
The New York Times and other newspaper are reporting on the so-called “New Urbanism” in which former industrial towns in southern Louisiana and Mississippi have been hollowed out of their industries and are being forced to downsize to “historically theme developments” shells depopulated of their working classes and Black segments.
As a paper of record the New York Times does it readership a disservice by omission of the critical issues that is shaping recovery of the Gulf at this critical point in the national debate. New Urbanism is nothing more than economic triage or trying to make the best of a very bad situation.
The systemic destruction of Black private homeowners in New Orleans continues unabated. The strategic industrial debate of what kind of industrial economy that has reemerged in New Orleans is moving forward with little Black input. Many in the Black media ask who is driving this train? Need only look to New York –based oil companies.
Most people in New Orleans before Katrina were employed in manufacturing.
The pre-Katrina non-oil-based manufacturing was contributed 75 percent of the New Orleans region manufacturing employment based. Most of this manufacturing was flooded out.
What remains of the post-Katrina skilled labor force is under new pressures from lack of housing and physical infrastructure. The hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans has destroyed over 100,000 businesses and homes in New Orleans. Reportedly over 70,000 or almost half the housing stock of the city of New Orleans was destroyed.
More importantly many of the existing Computer Integrated Manufacturing companies and IT designed firms were destroyed.
To serious talk about African American political economy and employment in the New Orleans metropolitan area, one must fit any meaningful discussion into the context; framework of the American Ruhr and the emerging informational based manufacturing.
Most of the American Ruhr oil refining and chemical manufacturing is under new pressure form Asia. The American Ruhr master business plan has been consolidating New Orleans operations, while moving deeper out in the Gulf. US Chemical companies are partnering with Asian firms and investing in Asia infrastructure upgrades and development in Asia and South America.
The pre-Katrina Vision 2020 Louisiana economic development plan outlines a movement away from labor-intensive low skill manufacture toward advanced manufacturing. The pre-Katrina African American labor force was reportedly under serious pressure from both the Chinese and Latio slave labor.
A carefully reading of the federal post-Katrina urban policy reveals a clear and well-defined roadmap away from a Black labor intensive economy into a post –industrial Knowledge based economy.
There is fascist myth of the post-Katrina economic development master plan is that thought voodoo economics if the New Orleans industrial region is depopulated of its useless mouths (structurally unemployable, Black and poor white segments), that the New Orleans region and state of Louisiana will be free to easily make the economic transition to a robust post-industrial economy.
The reality is with a very tattered infrastructure, the region is being allowed to dead.
The post Katrina Vision 2020 dream is a dangerous economic myth
There is a deadly slave triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade growing between China, Canada and Mexico in components and sub-assemble and final assembles that end up in US as cheap imports. The strategic industrial aspects of this triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade are hidden in the U.S. Commerce Department. Over 30 per cent of Canada exports to China are sub-assemblies, returning to the U.S. via Canadian or Mexican exports to the U.S. Almost 50 per cent of the 617 billion American trade deficit is accounted for in the 274 billion deficits with just China, Canada and Mexico countries.
This Asian trade before Katrina was destroying the already super thin margins of Gulf regional manufactures. The Gulf region, Central and South American has lost 100 billion of investment capital to either China or US debt service rollovers.
There are few news articles connecting the economic dots of the emerging China, Canada and Mexico triangular trade to the industrial recovery of the New Orleans region economy.
In the post-Katrina New Orleans recovery, these weaknesses are critical factors. Without the massive need to support 25 percent of the regional population in a welfare economy, new productive investment will be made in human resource development and infrastructure. This is an economic myth driving the forced depopulation and retardation of the New Orleans industrial economy.
Africans Americans must understand that they only hope for remaining in New Orleans is located in fighting for a manufacturing economy and increasingly high educational and skill requirements for computer aided manufacturing and service industries.
Over 425,000 people have so far been depopulated from the city and another 300,000 from the region.
Many of these of were the skill workers was the core human infrastructure the industrial based of New Orleans.
After 500 years of human blood, sweat and tears investments in the city of New Orleans, its culture and spirit, the descendants of the slaves who built the city, are being given walking money and a ride to the next state and told, “You don’t live here anymore”.
This is the next phase in the post-Katrina New Urbanism plan for the recovery of New Orleans and other Northern Gulf French communities.
The New Urbanism in the northern Gulf of Mexico is no different than the 600,000 abandoned industrial parks dotting every urban center across America.
By I.R. Scott
The New Orleans region is in need of 250 billion dollar of new capital investments to restart its industrial economy.
The refusal of the oil and chemical companies to pay any major part of the trillion dollars of damages to the New Orleans industrial base and work force from the massive oil and chemical spills, ensure that the non-oil centric manufacturing sector will be very slow recovering.
Urban development is suffering from a major lack of a strong industrial economy, investment and the 17th Street that is still not repaired.
With no major investments coming into the region, many Northern Gulf of Mexico communities have turned to reinventing their life saving into levee less suicide French country style urban communities. These levee less French styled cheap modular communities are one storm away from another Bollix nightmare.
The New York Times and other newspaper are reporting on the so-called “New Urbanism” in which former industrial towns in southern Louisiana and Mississippi have been hollowed out of their industries and are being forced to downsize to “historically theme developments” shells depopulated of their working classes and Black segments.
As a paper of record the New York Times does it readership a disservice by omission of the critical issues that is shaping recovery of the Gulf at this critical point in the national debate. New Urbanism is nothing more than economic triage or trying to make the best of a very bad situation.
The systemic destruction of Black private homeowners in New Orleans continues unabated. The strategic industrial debate of what kind of industrial economy that has reemerged in New Orleans is moving forward with little Black input. Many in the Black media ask who is driving this train? Need only look to New York –based oil companies.
Most people in New Orleans before Katrina were employed in manufacturing.
The pre-Katrina non-oil-based manufacturing was contributed 75 percent of the New Orleans region manufacturing employment based. Most of this manufacturing was flooded out.
What remains of the post-Katrina skilled labor force is under new pressures from lack of housing and physical infrastructure. The hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans has destroyed over 100,000 businesses and homes in New Orleans. Reportedly over 70,000 or almost half the housing stock of the city of New Orleans was destroyed.
More importantly many of the existing Computer Integrated Manufacturing companies and IT designed firms were destroyed.
To serious talk about African American political economy and employment in the New Orleans metropolitan area, one must fit any meaningful discussion into the context; framework of the American Ruhr and the emerging informational based manufacturing.
Most of the American Ruhr oil refining and chemical manufacturing is under new pressure form Asia. The American Ruhr master business plan has been consolidating New Orleans operations, while moving deeper out in the Gulf. US Chemical companies are partnering with Asian firms and investing in Asia infrastructure upgrades and development in Asia and South America.
The pre-Katrina Vision 2020 Louisiana economic development plan outlines a movement away from labor-intensive low skill manufacture toward advanced manufacturing. The pre-Katrina African American labor force was reportedly under serious pressure from both the Chinese and Latio slave labor.
A carefully reading of the federal post-Katrina urban policy reveals a clear and well-defined roadmap away from a Black labor intensive economy into a post –industrial Knowledge based economy.
There is fascist myth of the post-Katrina economic development master plan is that thought voodoo economics if the New Orleans industrial region is depopulated of its useless mouths (structurally unemployable, Black and poor white segments), that the New Orleans region and state of Louisiana will be free to easily make the economic transition to a robust post-industrial economy.
The reality is with a very tattered infrastructure, the region is being allowed to dead.
The post Katrina Vision 2020 dream is a dangerous economic myth
There is a deadly slave triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade growing between China, Canada and Mexico in components and sub-assemble and final assembles that end up in US as cheap imports. The strategic industrial aspects of this triangular backdoor sub-assembly trade are hidden in the U.S. Commerce Department. Over 30 per cent of Canada exports to China are sub-assemblies, returning to the U.S. via Canadian or Mexican exports to the U.S. Almost 50 per cent of the 617 billion American trade deficit is accounted for in the 274 billion deficits with just China, Canada and Mexico countries.
This Asian trade before Katrina was destroying the already super thin margins of Gulf regional manufactures. The Gulf region, Central and South American has lost 100 billion of investment capital to either China or US debt service rollovers.
There are few news articles connecting the economic dots of the emerging China, Canada and Mexico triangular trade to the industrial recovery of the New Orleans region economy.
In the post-Katrina New Orleans recovery, these weaknesses are critical factors. Without the massive need to support 25 percent of the regional population in a welfare economy, new productive investment will be made in human resource development and infrastructure. This is an economic myth driving the forced depopulation and retardation of the New Orleans industrial economy.
Africans Americans must understand that they only hope for remaining in New Orleans is located in fighting for a manufacturing economy and increasingly high educational and skill requirements for computer aided manufacturing and service industries.
Over 425,000 people have so far been depopulated from the city and another 300,000 from the region.
Many of these of were the skill workers was the core human infrastructure the industrial based of New Orleans.
After 500 years of human blood, sweat and tears investments in the city of New Orleans, its culture and spirit, the descendants of the slaves who built the city, are being given walking money and a ride to the next state and told, “You don’t live here anymore”.
This is the next phase in the post-Katrina New Urbanism plan for the recovery of New Orleans and other Northern Gulf French communities.
The New Urbanism in the northern Gulf of Mexico is no different than the 600,000 abandoned industrial parks dotting every urban center across America.
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