This project proposed a neighborhood recovery planning methodology, a process of analysis and strategic intervention intended to facilitate rebuilding in New Orleans on a block-by-block scale.
Neighborhood analysis looked at the people and resources of Mid-City within the context of devastation. The analysis sought to identify community know-how and self-initiated neighborhood improvement strategies used before Katrina that might inform the rebuilding process.
Ten or so initiatives were then proposed that address short- and long-term community needs on a range of scales-from house to block to neighborhood. An implementation strategy prioritized the initiatives in terms of various return-of-residents scenarios.
The overall approach was to pick out healthy elements in the neighborhood and then leverage these for rebuilding the landscape.