The rebuilding may have benefited from government incompetence:
The people of New Orleans, Nicole Gelinas writes, have "been building and rebuilding on their own or with small-scale help, rather than under top-down decree--and, in the process, showing that thousands of individual planners are better than one master."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/05/unplanned-new-orleans/216372/
