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NEW ORLEANS - Four words that describe New Orleans was socked by Hurricane Katrina: disaster, yes; apocalypse, no.

The horizontal table while formally neighborhoods stinking, sewage-infested waters is as impressive as the vertical drama of the collapse of the twin towers in New York. Big cities are symbols of human power. We do not expect that humiliation, nature and the evacuation of more than forecast, we had terrorists fly in the clouds scratches.

But the rigor of home media eye on New Orleans’ sunken territories and the unprecedented proliferation of the inhabitants of the largest dim image: The real problem is not whether rebuilding the Big Easy, but how.

Cities are collective works, and New Orleans is one of the masterpieces of America - a delicious multicultural Gemüseeibisch whose value is greater than in a nation where the same stores, banks and shopping malls felt irrespective of the place, like any other place.

Just for this reason, much-hyped “We must rebuild New Orleans?” Debate is absurd. Of course, we must save New Orleans. It is a lift, he is responsible, like Italy Venice. Moreover, someone who sets foot in this city knows that the best parts of New Orleans should not be rebuilt. They are still there.

It could be a Mardi Gras parade tomorrow in the bone dry French Quarter. The modern office towers and hotels of Central Business District, even if they are graceless, remain standing sign for the resumption of its role as focal points of trade. Some of the city extraordinary, as the Garden District, with its white columns Antebellum villas, came through the storm with a little more than downed trees.

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