University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) Working Papers, 1991-2000 Department of Planning and Urban Studies 1994 Waterfront development, urban regeneration and local politics in New Orleans and Liverpool Mickey Lauria University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/cupa_wp Recommended Citation Lauria, Mickey, "Waterfront development, urban regeneration and local politics in New Orleans and Liverpool" (1994). College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) Working Papers, 1991-2000. Paper 2. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/cupa_wp/2 This Working Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Planning and Urban Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) Working Papers, 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact
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[email protected] fax: 504-286-6272 1 INTRODUCTION New Orleans and Liverpool were great world ports that declined precipitously in the mid 20th century, but have begun to modernize recently (in the 1970s - 1980s). Both cities have remnant populations that reflect their historical slave trade and unusually large merchant class. Both cities traditionally have had low manufacturing bases, and thus had difficulty absorbing their large pools of unemployed dock workers during port decline and restructuring to meet containerization. Finally, both New Orleans and the Merseyside Development Corporation have largely pursued what has been called the “Corporate Centered Approach” to waterfront development and urban regeneration.