Martin Bailkey

In: Urban Agriculture Magazine no 22 - Building Resilient Cities pp. 17-19

Of all American cities, present-day New Orleans best exemplifies the concept of resilience in its ongoing struggle to recover its position as the urban centre of the central Gulf Coast region, and as a city of national significance in tourism, shipping and biomedicine. Two trips to the city in autumn 2008, more than three years after 80 per cent of the city was under water and the entire population had to flee for weeks or months, convinced the author (a New Orleans native) that much that was once considered “normal” has returned.