Operation Gutter to Gulf

This Blog is a collaborative effort between Washington University in St. Louis and The University of Toronto to examine and develop an integrated water management plan and infrastructural strategies for the city and its surrounding region. The studio will examine water as a means to rehabilitate the urban landscape of New Orleans. 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


Sunday, February 15, 2009

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...
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