A grove of trees and flowers that will soon be built is anchoring hopes of transforming a down-on-its-heels New Orleans neighborhood that's been plagued by crime and poverty.
Meet Ken Smith, a prominent New York City landscape architect who's put a roof garden atop the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, greened up Malcolm X Plaza in Harlem, designed a massive metropolitan park in Orange County, Calif., and made gardens flourish inside trash bins at Ohio State University.
He's taking the concept of urban oases to four cities in a public-corporate project that's won the blessing of the Obama administration. The first of the groves will be built over the next month in New Orleans.
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