In New Orleans when confronted by the fact that an entire district of the city had been washed away (and the rest soaked deep in water) the city punted by not re-zoning the land as non-residential. The reasons for this were mostly political, the reasons to do it have mostly to due with the city's inability to safeguard against a repeat of Katrina style flooding. So today, Brad Pitt and others are building houses in the Lower Ninth and hoping that they will be high enough to stay above the water line, but not so high as to become a sail in hurricane force winds.
Flint MI has different plans afoot to deal with its shrinking population and loss of infrastructure, controlled implosion of residential and commercial districts to use less land and preserve community. Of course another outcome of rejiggering the urban landscape is the creation of less transportation needy environments. How about a LEED certified city?
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