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Zoroaster Tower of Babel

Media Matters

New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning

Appleseed. dir. Shinji Aramaki (2004) Nausicaä, dir. Miyazaki (1984) Akira, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) Sky Blue, dir. Moon-saeng Kim (2005)

The Post-apocalyptic Trope In Anime

Akira, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2005)

QUESTIONS OF HUMAN AGENCY IN AFTERMATH

Akira

“Can our imaginations of apocalypse actually forestall it? Even the slimmest of possibilities is enough to justify the nightmare.”

Lawrence Buell

Opening Scene in Nausicaä Opening Scene in Akira

Minority/Youth Protagonists as New Authority for A Different Future

Examples of Community Participation-Agency Post-Katrina

SKY BLUE NAUSICAA APPLESEED

Ghost in the Shell

katrina: reality trumps fiction as indictment of impotent authority, man’s control of nature and societal divisions.

The photo is of evacuated prisoners held at gun point on overpass.

Ghost in the ShellDoes the Master Plan for New Orleans address both the city’s crisis of Space, and it’s crisis of Time?

http://www.nolamasterplan.org/

New Orleans’s Temporal Exceptionalism

New Orleans’s Temporal Exceptionalism

Ghost in the Shell

A CITY OF BEING versus A CITY OF BECOMINGESSENTIAL (PLATO ARISTOTLE SOCRATES) vs PROCESS (BERGSON DEWEY NIETZCHE)

PERMANENT : PROVISIONAL FIXED : DYNAMIC TIMELESS : TRANSFORMATIONAL

THE NEW NORMAL vs A FRONTIER TOWN

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, dir. David Fincher (2008)

Home, dir. Matt Faust (2008)

Scala Naturae

EMBRACING THE DIACHRONIC TYPICAL FOR POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES

From D. Harvey(1989)

New Orleans as Node in Global Network

‘glocal’i the Shell

national synchronic connection

After Katrina: Rebuilding Of St. Bernard Parish, Dir. A. Finberg 2006

Controversy of Refugee vs Evacuee, NPR 2005

Nausicaä

http://www.nolamasterplan.org/

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Database Structure to Compliment City’s Official Historic Narrative

PROSPECT.1 New Orleans

Past (historic district) Present (population) Future (the next flood)

http://www.nolamasterplan.org/

Ghost in the Shell

“…large urban works are bimoral: they are inherently good and bad, simultaneously…. and instead reverberate within good and bad…”

Dana Cuff, The Provisional City (MIT: 2000)

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