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.

Monday, February 11, 2008

past chase competitions

www.newschool.edu/milano/fl_consulting_clinic.aspx?s=1:7:3

Friday, February 1, 2008

Ida's pictures, and some others

Hi everyone,

My images from New Orleans can be found here: Student Volunteers and A Second Line Funeral

And the multimedia:


Also, The Open Society Institute funded Katrina Media Fellows to report on New Orleans. Brenda Ann Kenneally has produce several media pieces as well on children effected by the storm. It was published on the New York Times site (click on multimedia on the left).