New Orleans Living Laboratory

This project will jump undergraduates into the complexity of planning in New Orleans post-disaster. Students will learn about people, planning processes, politics, and policy and how a disaster forces change, rethinking, and reprioritizing. Once grounded in the history of New Orleans and the specifics of Katrina (and Rita), students will then work on projects that are connected to the ongoing work of faculty, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Specifically, students in the Living Laboratory will respond to work requests by neighborhood groups, city, and agency officials seeking to move redevelopment projects forward. This laboratory will be living and changing, and as such student projects will grow and change accordingly.