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Showing 1 to 20 of 437 for “"New Orleans"”.
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Energy flows : empowering New Orleans
… Taking the hurricane-devastated, slow-recovering New Orleans as a site for intervention, the thesis will challenge existing building materials for their flood resistance and reaction to an inundated environment while developing tools to harvest energy from the multiple environmental conditions …
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The Creolization of Food in New Orleans
Einer der zentralen Begriffe der Arbeit ist Kultur. Kultur wird hier nicht als etwas Abgegrenztes oder Statisches verstanden, sondern als kreativer Prozess. Kultur besteht aus zwei Polen: einem statischen und einem dynamischen. Auf der statischen Seite wird Kultur verstanden als „Zivilisation“, die …
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Black Policemen in Jim Crow New Orleans
… they seldom assess black policemen’s role in New Orleans between the Battle of Liberty Place and 1913. The men discussed here argue that despite the hardening racial attitudes in Post-‐ Reconstruction South, in New Orleans opportunity still existed for Blacks to serve in positions of …
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The New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans
In 1996, the New Orleans Police Department implemented the COMSTAT management and accountability style of policing. Within three years of that implementation, murder was cut by over fifty percent and violent crime fell by nearly the same amount; overall crime was cut by over one-third compared to …
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A New Orleans State of Crime: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Shifting Homicide Patterns In Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, LA
… in the United States during 2006, 2007 and 2008, New Orleans has wrestled with crime and murder since its founding in 1718. Following Hurricane Katrina the city saw an increase in the murder rate despite a sharp decrease in population. The focus of this project was to map homicide data trends in …
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Implementation of New Childcare Policies in New Orleans
… of care. Louisiana has recently implemented a new policy called the Quality Rating System. Directors of centers in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, were interviewed to determine the impact of participation in QRS. Centers are struggling to meet the requirements and feel that changes need to be made …
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My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories
My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories is written in two parts, a fictional story about Mickey, an eleven year old white girl, growing up in New Orleans in 1954 and a non-fictional story of my experience as a teenager in New Orleans in 1959. Part I is Mickey's personal coming of age story …
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Interpreting Disaster: New Orleans Museums Respond to Katrina
<p>By examining the public presence of New Orleans museums in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this work will explore the role of museums in the early process of disaster recovery. The responses of The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, …
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Black and White Workers: New Orleans, 1880-1900
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317117.pdf: 33066836 bytes, checksum: 4698df12c188aafe687459be81eecb63 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Uncommon ground : property, coordination, and rebuilding New Orleans
… and investors with respect to reconstitution of New Orleans' housing stock and neighborhoods. For investors, risk and uncertainty abound. For planners, a careful balance between property rights and comprehensive planning is required. The fate of several neighborhoods hangs in the balance. What …
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Motion and Emotion, Urban Dwelling in New Orleans
… thesis brings forth the regional architecture of New Orleans, Louisiana, and applies it directly towards the reconstruction and reconstitution of the Lafitte Housing Project closed as a result of Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005. The half-mile long Lafitte Housing Project rests just outside …
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Casa Samba: Identity, Authenticity, and Tourism in New Orleans
… and samba school that has been operating in New Orleans’ performance scene since 1986. The group has been run by an American couple, Curtis and Carol Pierre, since its inception. Their son, Bomani Pierre, has been raised in the Afro-Brazilian drumming and dance practices that Casa Samba …
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The New Orleans Grocery Man: Ferrara Supermarket's Mr. Merrill
… late 1800s, my family set up a corner grocery in New Orleans. From this small store grew a business that became New Orleans' oldest family-owned grocery. Ferrara Supermarket, however, eventually feuded my father and aunt, dividing our family. Grandpa didn't understand how a business, which had …
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Growing Communities: Urban Agriculture In Post-Katrina New Orleans
The city of New Orleans is known for many things, from Mardi Gras and jazz music, to the rich union of French, Spanish, southern and Creole cultures. Recently, urban agriculture has come to the city as part of the rebuilding process following Hurricane Katrina. Many groups have sprung up across the …
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Answering the bell : rebuilding New Orleans around neighborhood schools
… school of good quality. Not surprisingly, New Orleans residents have identified schools as critical elements in the recovery of their neighborhoods in the myriad of post-Katrina planning processes. In this context, residential rebuilding decisions in substantially flood damaged …
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God Talk: Shifting Religious Rhetoric in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… in a modern case study of post-Katrina New Orleans concerning the way words in the New Orleans community have taken on new meanings among both secular and religious institutions. Likewise, this case study will raise serious questions about why the language changed and what the …
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“Respectably Dull”: Striptease, Tourism and Reform in Postwar New Orleans
<p>The French Quarter of New Orleans and its famous Bourbon Street receive millions of visitors each year and are the subjects of both scholarly study and the popular imagination. Bourbon Street’s history of striptease has largely been untouched by scholars. In the post-World War II period, …
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Milneburg, New Orleans: An Anthropological History of a Troubled Neighborhood
… 200 years, there has been a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana named Milneburg, which has been constantly reimagined by its inhabitants and others. From its inception as a port of entry in 1832 until the 2011, it has been called a world-class resort, the poor-man's Riviera, a seedy …
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Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans
… ordinances offer an assessment of older versus newer ordinances as well as strict versus lenient provisions within a mandatory ordinance. This thesis acknowledges the model ordinance is strong and accepts its recommendation to convene a housing task force to study implementation in New Orleans. …
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