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City and building design: for a sustainable New Orleans
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City and building design:for a sustainable New Orleans
HurricaneHugo
1989 $3.1
MidwestFloods
1993 $7.0
Loma PrietaEarthquake1989 $7.6
HurricaneAndrew
1992 $10.8
FloridaHurricanes2004 $14.0
Northridge,CA
Earthquake1994 $15.5
$62.3(to date)
HurricaneKatrinaKatrina's Cost: Uncharted Territory
Total Government Aid (in billions of 2005 dollars)
The federal allocation for needs related to HurricaneKatrina - which is expected to increase as the extentof damage becomes known - dwarfs the amounts spenton the previous most costly disasters.
Figure by MIT OCW.
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Plaquemines Parish
New Orleans
LakePontchartrain
Venice
0 Miles 20
Mississippi River
Major Levee
London Ave. Canal
Inner HarborNavigational
Canal
LakeBorgne
Orleans Ave. Canal17th St. Canal
LakePontchartrain
Miles 50
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Mississippi
River Gulf Outlet
10 90
Barrier RepairsThe flood and hurricane protection system in and around New Orleans is being restored to its condition beforeHurricane Katrina or in some cases improved. Here is a look at the major projects.
Earth is being moved torepair the 162 miles oflevees along the Mississippi River inPlaquemines Parish.
Flood gates are beingconstructed at the confluence of the canalswith Lake Pontchartrain.
Along the Inner HarborNavigational Canal, floodwalls are being replacedwith new concrete T-Wall.
Levees are being rebuiltalong the MississippiRiver Gulf Outlet, theright-of-way increasedand barges removed.
Figure by MIT OCW.
New Orleans: Public Housing
MIT “Float” House
non-physical systems physical systems
social
political economic
city
natural ecology resources
wk Tues Thurs
4 02.27
LeveesProfessor Andrew Whittle, CEE
Assignment 2, Part 1 givenJournal
03.01
Systems, complexity and housing
Assignment 2, Part 2 given
5 03.06
Urban Infrastructure and KatrinaJournal
03.08
Urban Metabolism
6 03.13
Urban EcologyProf. Doug Meffert, Co-Director Biosciences Research Center, Tulane
Journal
03.15
Urban EcologyProf. Doug Meffert, Co-Director Biosciences Research Center, Tulane
Assignment 2, Part 1 and 2 Due
7 03.20
Student PresentationsJournal
03.22
Project Discussions
Physical Systems Schedule
