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Three days after New Orleans has broken the walls of flooding to 29 August, a visit to his hometown to leave Harry Connick Jr. feeling of despair.

“It is difficult to rest in silence, watching a youth away from the wash,” the singer and pianist wrote on its website. “I do dream that one day they resumed their glory.”

On follow-up visit a week later, Connick has approached things, that his hopes. Water was returned, violence has been completed, and at least one bar in Bourbon Street, where 37 years Connick cut his music teeth. “Man,” Connick wrote, “if this is not a sign of New Orleans returned to his state to restore the old!”

Maybe. As the shock of an America’s worst natural disaster contributes and water pumped out of New Orleans, public life, local actors to President Bush to start talking about the revitalization of the 287-year old city, as if something is inevitable.

They are contemplation, which planner Robert Lang of Virginia Tech, said he had never done before in America “: With what could be hundreds of billions by government and private dollars for the reconstruction of a modern city at a scale plus more, what happened in San Francisco in 1906 its earthquakes, or Chicago to its 1871 fire.

But what kind of city is water, when and how?

The reconstruction is a complex, multi-racial with sensitive issues, as you redevelopment of the city to attract new, while the blue-collar and low-income residents - most of them black - the Most of the approximately half million refugees are now scattered across America. On Thursday, is like many New Orleans’ identity - its unique combination of K and refinement, charm and bawdiness - washed away too well.

Policies, planners, contractors and people with views on a “new” New Orleans are already campaigns for their competing visions.

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., Country whose New Orleans was flooded, focus on the creation of a city in which tax credits, housing and employment, promotion programs would be used for Promoting the return of its working class.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., Whose house nearby was also damaged connoisseurs, it appoints a reconstruction czar and dust off plans to diversify the industrial base of the city and modernisation of hospitals and social housing.

Scientists like John Rennie, editor in chief of Scientific American, speak for a Safer World and perhaps smallest town, wetlands will be expanded to protection against storms.

Singer type Neville Neville Brothers is the requirement of a “New Orleans” - a city populated by returning refugees and protected by a new set of “best levees ever been built.”

And Dane Ciolino, a defence lawyer Criminal Jura and a professor at the University of New Orleans, a city well established that this is not the “looters and shooter,” but this is racial diversity and economically. He feared that the restoration only the highest earners, such as residential areas of the Garden District and the sights of the French Quarter - areas in New Orleans at least damaged by flooding - the city would be in a “Disneyland for adults with cocktails.

“It takes a lot of things to say that (reconstruction) is the money of the band storm on the horizon, but there is no denying that we have a chance to never,” said Jindal, whose district includes part of New Orleans and its suburbs. “Now the challenge is to bring together the best thinking and planning and ideas, and come together and do so correctly. … That has not already done so, either.