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Reviving New Orleans: Designing a Culturally-Rich Future

Explore the reconstruction of New Orleans post-disaster, focusing on cultural preservation, economic development, and social progress. Discover the city's history, challenges, and potential solutions for a vibrant future.

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Reviving New Orleans: Designing a Culturally-Rich Future

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  1. New Orleans 5 - City Design Rebuilding the Most Culturally-Rich City in the United States

  2. Original Team Goals • Project economic and racial demographics for a repopulated New Orleans • Create an ideal city and strip away the impractical characteristics to arrive at a plausible solution • Preserve the city’s history while accommodating modern social standards

  3. Revised Goals • Obtain a comprehensive understanding of New Orleans’ cultural history • Investigate the city’s current cultural significance • Convey each neighborhood’s social and cultural importance to the city as a whole • Examine how other areas have dealt with similar disasters

  4. Answers to YOUR Questions • Q: Which neighborhoods, if any, should be reclaimed as wetlands? • A: Generally deserted areas, those most prone to future damage determined by the history of levee breaches and current level of disrepair

  5. Answers to YOUR Questions • Consider the most damaged neighborhoods: • Lower Ninth Ward • Chalmette • New Orleans East • Lakeview • Ninth Ward

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  7. Answers to YOUR Questions • Q: What is the political climate like in the city? • A: General discrimination against the poor and minorities of New Orleans by local, state, and federal authorities

  8. Answers to YOUR Questions • More on political climate: Bribery and corruption run rampant, especially in regards to levee maintenance; result - little to none is being done to rebuild the city • Solution? Education would promote awareness, understanding, and productivity in an ever-struggling city

  9. Answers to YOUR Questions • Q: What is the breakdown of population and demographics in pre and post Katrina New Orleans? • A: Pre-Katrina population: 454,863 vs. Post-Katrina population: 187,525

  10. Answers to YOUR Questions • 2000: Blacks-325,947; Whites-135,956 • Current: Blacks-86,917; Whites-82,048 • General population predictions have suffered from overestimation • Great reference site: www.gnocdc.org

  11. Current Plan • Preserve as many neighborhoods as possible • Encourage cultural events to continue and grow • Provide adequate social services to the returning population • Build, stock, and staff public schools • Begin changing people’s mindset at the very basic level of compulsory elementary education and encourage safer alternatives for housing and energy

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