This week, Untapped Cities reader @caseytweeted asked us “Any good suggestions for exploring New Orleans aside from the abandoned Six Flags?” It got us thinking that it was high time we put together a guide to New Orleans from an urbanist perspective. We asked two NOLA experts, Mary Rowe of the Municipal Art Society who was formerly at the New Orleans Institute for Resilience and Innovation and Michael T. Martin of St. Claude Main Street, a non-profit organization in New Orleans. We asked them for places that tell the story of New Orleans from an urban planning and architecture perspective: 1. The abandoned Six Flags is still worth seeing Surreal, a metaphor for what went wrong. 2. New Orleans Charity Hospital Art Deco, shuttered and on National Trust for Historic Preservation’s most endangered list in 2008. New Orleans built a new hospital for all the wrong reasons. Image via National Trust for Historic Preservation 3. The Lafitte Public… Read More