Book Review by Oliver A. Houck
Eighteen years ago, six years before Earth Day and the boom of environmental law, two Tulane law school students living in the French Quarter of New Orleans were touched by what seemed to be the death throes of local opposition to an elevated interstate highway, 180 feet wide and 40 feet in the air, carrying six lanes of traffic along the Mississippi River through the Quarter and across Jackson Square. They became involved, cautiously at first, then headlong, and were swept away. The struggle against the Vieux Carré Expressway was to last another five years. It would be eleven more before they published an extraordinary history of what is probably the most significant historic preservation controversy of the century and called, with only slight exaggeration, The Second Battle of New Orleans.
About the Author
Oliver A. Houck. David Boies Chair in Public Interest Law, Tulane University; B.A. 1960 Harvard College; J.D. 1967 Georgetown University.
Citation
57 Tul. L. Rev. 431 (1982)