oh come on.. 'always barbarians, and they always prevail'? Enough with the dire extremes, already.

The article detailed some cities creating standards for businesses and an approach to making living intown more balanced, but how did that evolve into 'Gated' cities? New Orleans has some sad political shenanigans being played upon it to exclude a vast portion of its poorer, former residents, but how are you tying that in with this article, except to say that NOLA intrinsically has some of the qualities of a Slow-city that the article references.. It seems to me that those qualities are what make New Orleans MORE accessible to a broad range of people, not less.

The forces that would be grabbing former residents' properties and rebuilding those parishes into overpriced developments or exclusive neighborhoods cannot possibly be confused with those in Europe trying to create Slow Cities.

"Forget the power of Positive Thinking. It just doesn't work, and it never will.." Chad's Fifth Axiom- Self Help for the PostModernNihilist

Bob

Once Upon a Time in the not too distant past, most cities were "gated" with a massive defensive wall with guarded entrances--gates--and sometimes moats. But most of today's gated "communites" have their lots filled to the brim with McMansions leaving very little room to grow food, and hardly qualify as communities when the basic essence of that word's meaning is examined.