The idea of calling prefab new urbanist-designed dwellings

The idea of calling prefab new urbanist-designed dwellings in Louisiana “Gulf Coast Cottages” has been put to rest no more than two months after it was first raised. Andres Duany now says “Katrina” is the brand that will be used for all the cottages designed in response to the need for small, readily available dwellings — no matter what part of the Gulf Coast they may be meant for. Thus the version unveiled in Chalmette, Louisiana, has been designated the “Katrina Cottage II.” “Andres is right,” says Stephen Mouzon of the New Urban Guild. “When Hurricane Billy Bob hits the coast of North Carolina with category 4 force winds next fall and destroys 22,000 houses, are we going to rename them Billy Bob Cottages? … No, they’ll always be Katrina Cottages, memorializing the worst natural disaster in the history of our nation.”