"Mark Antony Wigley" is a New Zealand-born architect, author, and Dean of Columbia University/Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, United States.

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We have to get past the standardized image. It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

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Any city that only tries to preserve itself is already dead. The great tragedy would be to embalm New Orleans by simply rebuilding it the way it was.

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[If there is any social dividend from the hurricane, some architects and planners said, it is the view the storm afforded of how the other half lives, the areas that are not in the guidebooks.] We have to get past the standardized image, ... It didn't include any of the poor people - any of those neighborhoods that we only know now because they're filled with water.

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