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Operation Gutter to Gulf (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the water)

This Blog is a Spring 2009 collaborative effort between architecture students of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and landscape architecture students of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The studios' charge is to assist in an ongoing effort titled Dutch Dialogues, a multi-disciplinary trans-national group led by Waggonner & Ball Architects of New Orleans, the American Planning Association and the Royal Netherlands Embassy. The overall intentions of Dutch Dialogues are to examine, research and speculate on integrated water management and infrastructural strategies for New Orleans and the surrounding region. The studios will examine water as a means to rehabilitate the urban landscape of New Orleans, positioning water within our sights and within our minds. Multiple scales of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and urbanism will be researched and designed as inextricable parts of the same whole, tracking and integrating water from the gutter to the gulf [of Mexico].








New Orleans Layered Systems site model generated from basemap provided courtesy of Waggonner & Ball Architects

Repopulation

For anyone interested in population return, this is a great site with block level information about what households were actively receiving mail in June 2005 and then in September 2008 (there is a really good explanation of the data on the side bar). It also has block level information about what households have received the Road Home Options 1, 2, and 3. Apparently there is address level information (which is what I'm after), but the site says you have to purchase it from a list company called Valassis.


http://www.gnocdc.org/repopulation/index.html























The main GNOCDC site (http://www.gnocdc.org/index.html) also has a lot more information that I haven't sifted through yet, but it looks pretty promising. Unfortunately, one of the data request options on the site specifically says they won't answer requests from students...