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Mall of America?
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A letter to saveaudubonpark
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So much has already been lost.
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So much has already been lost to tourism and supposed economic development. The City of New Orleans finally realized that change isn't always lucrative. How else to explain the comeback of the Canal Street streetcar line, or Mayor Morial's renewed fight against blight of historic properties?
To commemorate Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday, the Times-Picayune recently documented how few Armstrong landmarks
remain due to previous generations'
short-sightedness. It's now clear that residents and visitors alike are drawn by what cannot be found in many American cities: history, diversity and natural beauty.
Why can't the Audubon Institute recognize that quality of life and hometown pride are invaluable to locals? If we destroy our lovely Audubon Park -- including trees that
took hundreds of years to
grow -- we shame the naturalist for whom the park and the institute are named.
We might as well pave the whole city, build a giant enclosed mall in which we
build a giant enclosed mall in which we will all live, and embrace the greed and convenience that increasingly epitomizes the modern American dream.
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