Good Article on the NOLA Markets

http://blog.nola.com/judywalker/2007/08/urban_agriculture_the_fruits_v.html

The site for the Chase competition is below. Scroll to the bottom to see past winning submissions.

http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/local_work/gulf_coast/chase_competition.asp

Neighborhood Scale Information

Hello again,

This web site will be helpful as we move down in scale. It contains neighborhood planning pre-Katrina and plans for post-Katrina. Just go to the Your Neighborhood link on the left of the screen.

http://www.nolanrp.com/

A few links to community gardens in NOLA

These links I found while looking for green space connections in the city. The white boot brigade is a good example of local efforts towards food production and sustainability. The parkway-partners site has a list of community gardens that are up and running and has a link to an interesting video of the Holy Angels farmers market in the upper ninth ward.

http://www.whitebootbrigade.org/

http://www.parkwaypartnersnola.org/

Website that contains district reports and maps

http://www.unifiedneworleansplan.com/home3/choose/

Historic Development of New Orleans at the Delta Scale

Heres a link to a flash presentation of the historic development of New Orleans and the delta region from 6,000 years ago to 20 years into the future.

http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/multimedia/flash.ssf?flashlandloss1.swf

New Project, New Partner

OK
As often happens, everything has changed. Below are links to a few sites to get us going looking at Urban Gardens, Urban Markets etc. as well as where there is food now. Also a link to info on bio-remediation, which will probably be a factor.

http://nolafoodmap.com/

http://dnmc.org/

http://www.therenaissanceproject.la/

http://www.bionewsonline.com/w/what_is_bioremediation.htm

Bring New Orleans Back, Jan '06 City Plan

This multi-page document contains a variety of maps that fall into many of our study categories, as well as future plans and maps for New Orleans initially set by the city in January 2006

http://www.asla.org/land/nocityplan.pdf

Another Helpful Site...

This site has a wealth of links and data concerning pre and post Katrina in the Gulf area.

Hurricane Katrina Information Guide

some links that may be useful

New Orleans:

City Planning Commission of New Orleans

New Orleans Housing Authroity

New Orleans Preservation Resource Center

New Orleans Tourist Information

Topography of New Orleans via NASA

Seniors Resource Guide to New Orleans


Projects Taking Place in the Lower 9th & the Surrounding Areas-
Historic Green

Make It Right

Holy Cross Neighborhood Happenings


Affordable & Low Income Housing:

The Affordable Housing Design Advisor (Developed by: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Affordable Housing Institute

National Low Income Housing Coalition

Historical Atlas of Louisiana

The Historical Atlas of Louisiana is a great resource for some of our mapping topics.
The book is available online through www.netlibrary.com. In order to access the ebook, you must visit the site, and type "Historical Atlas of Louisiana" in the search engine. It should be the first result; hope this helps!

Book Info:
Title: Historical Atlas of Louisiana
Author: Goins, Charles Robert.; Caldwell, John Michael
Publication: Norman, Okla. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

Another great resource:
http://atlas.lsu.edu/explorela.htm

I:Am:Awesome

Here is a very graphic intensive set of sources as the url's would suggest:

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/
http://www.gnocdc.org/ (bottom left corner)

For Monday Feb. 4th

In studio Monday, we will share the digested reports on Community Land Trusts, Lease Purchase Affordable Housing and the like. We will also begin (or further) the mapping project, look at and have a brief conversation about the Noli Map and talk about Edward Tufte's ideas about visual communication. I have high hopes for the mapping project and hope that it can provide the kind of clarity and understanding that the causality diagrams from previous studios gave. I also hope that we will produce some objects of beauty with the maps. The studio will be an odd combination of working with the mundane and the divine, as should be the process of design.

We have a blog

OK, we have a blog. This is a place to share info, links, etc. It cannot handle huge files, but should be a good way to keep track of information as it develops.