"There is a breathing space, and that time should be filled with people imagining how to rebuild New Orleans."

I heard an interview on the radio this morning with Christina Ford, who used to be a city planner in New Orleans in the 80s.

She made me believe that it's possible that there is some hope for the future...

"The one quality that makes a city planer is optimism, and I am trying to find something good in all of this, and there is precious little that is good. And I think that the only thing is that when we rebuild that city we make decisions that weren't even thinkable when that city was built in the first place."

You can here all of what she had to say (on Radio 4's Today Programme) here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_biloxi_20050907.ram