That's what gives me the most confidence about its return, ... The cultural provenance of New Orleans stands out in a way that isn't true of other parts of the South. Having this identity that people care about could be critical, especially since there are events where the outside world looks in.
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That's what gives me the most confidence about its return, ... The cultural provenance of New Orleans stands out in a way that isn't true of other parts of the South. Having this identity that people care about could be critical, especially since there are events where the outside world looks in.
The other is less tangible -- the emotional attachment to a city or a neighborhood. There's a powerful human desire to return to that and restore that.
A lot of talk at the time was, 'Well, there goes the wooden city. Now we can build something grander and more permanent, ... But it is precisely the old wooden city of New Orleans that people love.
People say the city will recover, and the question is, whose city? Is it the city that the tourists see or is it the broader city that really only came to the nation's consciousness after the hurricane?
This quote is just one of 7 total Lawrence Vale quotes in our collection. Lawrence Vale is known for saying 'That's what gives me the most confidence about its return, ... The cultural provenance of New Orleans stands out in a way that isn't true of other parts of the South. Having this identity that people care about could be critical, especially since there are events where the outside world looks in.' as well as some of the following quotes.