Sunday, March 2, 2008

Info Design Guide

For the report team, this is a basic, but thorough guide to creating information visualizations for projects very much like ours.

http://backspace.com/notes/2008/02/15/x.html

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

School Rebuilding Status

check out new site below; has clickable maps showing status of rebuilding nola public schools with fema recovery dollars; also shows parish by parish status of fema rebuilding dollars.

http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/2005katrina/map/rsd.html

Monday, February 25, 2008

higher rise green housing link

www.homedepotfoundation.org/pdfs/reach_3.pdf

Thursday, February 21, 2008

more useful links

Neighborhoods' Planning Network neighborhoodsplanning.com

Port of New Orleans www.portno.com/default.asp

Mid-City Neighborhood Org (blog) www.mcno.org

Federal Emergency Management Agency www.fema.gov

Levees. Org levees.org/main.php

Gulf Coast Reconstruction (blog) www.reconstructionwatch.org

Gulf Restoration Network healthygulf.org/overview.htm
Brookings Institution www.brookings.edu/metro/katrina.htm

Bring New Orleans Back www.bringneworleansback.org

Hurricane Information Louisiana www.katrina.louisiana.gov

Beyond Katrina (blog) www.hurricane-katrina.org

The New Gulf Coast www.the-new-gulf-coast.com

Rebuild New Orleans Public Library www.nutrias.org/~nopl/usefullinks.htm

City of New Orleans www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx

Greater New Orleans Fndtn www.gnof.org

Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) www.lra.louisiana.gov

LRA, Louisiana Speaks www.louisianaspeaks.org



Social Science Research Center www.ssrc.msstate.edu/katrina

Urban Institute www.urban.org/publications/311406.html

American Institute of Architects www.aia.org/about_katrina_aid

American Planning Association www.planning.org/katrina

UNEP Sustainable Building & Construction www.unep.or.jp/ietc/sbc/Resource_Link.asp

Smart Communities Network www.sustainable.doe.gov/welcome.shtml

Greater N. O. Community Data Center www.gnocdc.org

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Joseph Heathcott The New School

Architecture Program at Tulane

Perhaps worth checking out what projects students
from Tulane are doing in New Orleans:


http://architecture.tulane.edu/gallery/students/371

Friday, February 15, 2008

Global Green, USA

A link to green building strategies for affordable
housing in New Orleans:

http://www.globalgreen.org/

Let's look into this organization's presentation
on 02/21/08 in New Orleans, and review their
publications.