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general.130 Many of the residents are little equipped to undertake the necessary measures to plan for the rebuilding of their neighborhoods. Already it has been observed that residents in affluent neighborhoods have been the best organized and thus best able to take advantage of the form- based process.13i This suggests that the neighborhoods that suffered disproportionately in Hurricane Katrina because of location and infrastructure disadvantages may risk having those same disadvantages carried over in the form-based code process. Yet, because such processes are to a great extent self-regulated, there is no central authority to whom they can turn for relief. IV. Conclusion There is no doubt that form-based code may hold promise for the revitalization of old cities and for the creation of new ones. Jane Jacobs, a critic of traditional planning and zoning schemes, announced at the outset of The Death and Life of Great American Cities that the book was intended as "an attack on current city planning and rebuilding."132 Writing in 1961, Jacobs was speaking of the highly formulaic Euclidean-based zoning that was at the heart the planning schemes in United States cities, and of the explicit goals of such schemes were manifold — slum clearance followed by the creation more middle and upper income housing areas, and cultural, The Seventh Ward, located near downtown New Orleans extending from Esplanade Avenue to Elysian Fields, is one of the lesser known areas of New Orleans, yet one of the hardest hit by the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. See Rod Amis, Katrina and the Lost City of New Orleans 64- (2005) 130 '3' Ourosoff at B 1 132 Jacobs, Great American Cities, supra note at 1. 36