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Re: BrickFest Bulletin: LEGO Building Challenge
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lugnet.events.brickfest
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Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:15:20 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Joe Meno wrote:
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In the wake of the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the LEGO Builders of
Tomorrow campaign has put out a call to action asking children across the
country to donate a LEGO brick and their idea (photo, drawing, story) of what
they think a rebuilt New Orleans should include.
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Cute idea, and I’m sure your heart is in the right place. But as a former
resident of New Orleans, I wonder if the city itself should be rebuilt at all.
New Orleans has been on the verge of a natural disaster involving water for 400
years, and Ma Nature finally got lucky. Additionally, an extremely large
percentage of New Orleans, that you don’t see on TV, is ghetto housing projects
that even locals don’t walk through at night - are we expected to rebuild those?
And if one actually looks at a topographic map of the city, one will find that
the line between the poor neighborhoods and rich neighborhoods is not a highway
or even the proverbial railroad tracks, but a simple isoline.
In short, New Orleans is a textbook example of civic and social planning gone
horribly wrong. Yes, there are/were some nice parts of town, and the food is
incredible, and a kid with a fake ID can have a lot of fun there, but overall,
I’m not sure this is a city worth saving. If we had any brains about us, New
Orleans would become a historical park that is closed during hurricane season.
(Of course this has nothing to do with the Lego contest - I just thought it
should be pointed out)
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