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The City He Built By JIM LEWIS
The New Urbanists thought they had just the plan for remaking the Mississippi Gulf Coast city after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA, the mayor and a councilman thought otherwise.
The New Urbanists thought they had just the plan for remaking the Mississippi Gulf Coast city after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA, the mayor and a councilman thought otherwise.
An Architect With Plans for a New Gulf Coast
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: May 24, 2006
MIAMI — He's the man architecture critics love to hate: Andrés Duany, charismatic prophet of the New Urbanism, with his nostalgic prescriptions for dense, walkable neighborhoods energized by stores, mass transit and traditional housing....
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: May 24, 2006
MIAMI — He's the man architecture critics love to hate: Andrés Duany, charismatic prophet of the New Urbanism, with his nostalgic prescriptions for dense, walkable neighborhoods energized by stores, mass transit and traditional housing....
"This 2006 report provides estimates of repopulation rates and of population numbers in New Orleans for "the immediate future (the next three to six months) and the near-term future (the next one to three years) to guide the redevelopment planning process." The report also discusses the conceptual framework for the estimates. Includes a summary and the full report. From the Rand Gulf State Policy Institute." (via LII)
While many businesses were in the path of these storms, some were affected and others were not. Knowing where affected businesses are concentrated can guide efforts by Federal, State, and local agencies, service organizations, and entrepreneurs to respond to the storms and rebuild the economies of these areas.
An image of the elevation of New Olreans.
Census page listing Hurricane Katrina related info.
List of data sets available from USUS. Huge and quite up to date.
tagged USGS data gis hurricanes katrina maps new_orleans
by laallen
...and 1 other person
...on 22-SEP-05
List of data sets available from USUS. Huge and quite up to date.
tagged data gis hurricanes katrina maps new_orleans
by laallen
...and 1 other person
...on 22-SEP-05
H-net discussion of the damage to New Orleans in historical context. Go forward through the thread to find posts by historians about Katrina.
he World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and GIS for Public Health (WHOCC) at LSU is dedicated to the application and advancement of geographic information science (GISc) and geographic technologies for Public Health and disease modeling.
From LSU, this site links to many federal and local sources of data and maps.
Basic facts on the area, including business info on the area.
Federal Gateway to information about Katrina in New Orleans. Includes maps, GIS data, interactive mapping packages, etc.