Salon.com > David Thier http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 22:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Web for the neighborhood http://www.salon.com/2012/07/04/making_the_internet_real_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/07/04/making_the_internet_real_salpart/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12950144 Candy Chang moved to New Orleans in 2010. A small, intense woman, her background was in architecture and design. She had been living in Finland, but like scores of idealistic twentysomethings, she found herself drawn to the Crescent City. She was lured by the notion of becoming part of the burgeoning recovery that was changing whole neighborhoods in ways nobody ever predicted before Hurricane Katrina turned reality on its head. As an artist, she saw a canvas.

Next American CityNew Orleans was changing fast in 2010. The city was still reeling from the storm — many citizens had either decided they were never going to return, or realized they would never be able to. Those that had made their way back, or coming for the first time, were carving away rot as quickly as they could. Others were settling comfortably into it. The Marigny and adjacent Bywater neighborhood — about two miles downriver from the already-restored French Quarter — radiated emptiness and energy in the span of a single block. It was a shell, and the future was up for grabs.

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