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Post-Katrina Urban Design and Community Project
This web-site represents the Fall Semester 2006 work-in-progress by the 4th year ARC451 - Urban Design and Community studio - School of Architecture - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. At the request of Charles Allen, Program Manager for the Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research and resident of the Lower 9 th Ward community, three studio sections are studying urban planning issues related to post-Katrina New Orleans.
Faculty and students have been reviewing projects, proposals, community reports and planning directives, and other data provided by other university projects and people/resources in New Orleans in an attempt to learn from and build on work already accomplished rather than duplicating work already accomplished.
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In preparation for the project 34 students and two faculty traveled to New Orleans in September to tour New Orleans, attend a lecture at Tulane University (Allen Lewis), and assist the Preservation Resource Center with a existing conditions/buildings survey of the entire area of the Lower 9 th Ward north (lakeside) of St. Claude Avenue. Survey and photographic data from this field trip now on this website includes:
- Existing Conditions Buildings Survey (Excel Files) - Includes property between St. Claude to Florida Ave that the Preservation Resource Center had not yet surveyed. Corresponding digital photograph for almost all properties (based on 3-4 student teams walking this area Sept 13-15, 2006) are included.
- Base map (Autocad -pdf versions to be added in the future) of the entire Lower 9th. Ward indicating buildings remaining as of the 2nd week in September as correlated to the above walking survey.
- Detailed strip photos of both sides of St. Claude and N. Claiborne Avenues from the Industrial Canal to St. Bernard Parish.
- Detailed 360 degree photos at major intersections on St Claude and N. Claiborne avenues
- Additional field data (photos, video clips, and interviews) will be available by the end of the Fall semester.
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Section 1 - Professor Brazley: Research and development of Master Plan proposals with reasonable detail for the entire Section 8 Planning District, which includes the Lower 9th Ward and the Holy Cross Historic District. Three Master Plan teams of six students are each developing a Master Plan proposal. Each student on each team is then developing a specific proposal for a special area within each master plan proposal.
Section 2 - Professor Anz: Research and development of design proposals related to the NOLA “Consolidated Plan” for three different areas of New Orleans, including the Lower 9 th, Upper 9th/Bywater - St. Claude Ave corridor, and the Lower Garden District adjacent to the proposed River Sphere project.
Section 3 - Professor Swenson: Section 3, after organizing the field data and developing the web-site, is now focused on the entire Section 8 Planning District. (similar to Section 1) Based on one class-approved Master Plan proposal, three 6-student Master Planning teams are developing overall and specific proposals for significant major Landmarks, Pathways, Districts, Nodes, and Edges (Kevin Lynch terms) important to each of these three areas. |