Re-Thinking New Orleans | Tabula Rasa or URBANBuild?

In response to the previous post about my interest in urban crisis as a means of creating unique patterns or urban conditions in a city, I am posting the research paper I wrote for the course module on ideal city proposals. The research paper examines a proposal by engineers to re-create New Orleans as a Floating City. The argument looks at whether these  macro-scale proposals are the proper solution or whether unique urban conditions exist in present-day New Orleans that cannot simply be re-created at sea. It questions these methodologies by looking at alternative micro-scale solutions such as URBANbuild projects by Tulane and Brad Pitt's Make It Right work in the Lower Ninth Ward as perhaps the "better" solution to deal with the threat of natural disaster.