the "Disney Factor" and rebuilding New Orleans

I'll call it the "Disney factor". Disney developed it in its theme parks, the ability to bring back the past, albeit a sanitized past, by constructing buildings that look like those of a prior era.

Many of us bemoan the effect such thinking has had on architecture in US cities and how they have, in essence, removed the real and the genuine and have turned our major cities into amusement parks, often characteratures of themselves from bygone eras.

Our flight to fantasy and the technology to build in a way that mimics the era of true craftsmenship has produced tear-downs of houses across this country, replaced by huge, new ones, designed to look like they are hardly new at all.

Now how will all this play out in the reconstruction of New Orleans? Will the attempt be, particularly in historically important areas like the French Quarter, to replace destroyed structures in disneyesque style, allowing them to fit in? Will the Disney concept be used throughout the city to recreate the old Nawlins?

And, if so, in this case, is that necessarily a bad thing? If a destoryed community can use the existing technology to "patch" its destruction by building something compatable, intentinally designed to fit in, is this a wise idea?>