Last week, Brian and I had the immense pleasure of being given a post-Katrina tour with Quintus Jett, a professor at Dartmouth. He is the Director of the Gentilly Project, an effort to use open source principles to map the state of storm-damaged New Orleans neighborhoods. At their web site you can use dynamic GIS maps to zoom in on the condition of each lot (ie: vacant, being renovated, occupied, etc.), and zoom out to see the block-by-clock process of rebuilding.
I was so grateful for a chance to see the community personally. As you may know, there are still spray-painted symbols on many homes left by the rescue efforts. The biggest shock was that much of the Lower 9th Ward, which used to be hundreds of homes, is now a grassy field with just a few cement blocks and slabs marking former foundations.
You can browse my pictures at Flickr or watch the slideshow below.
ruby – do you know about the RENCI efforts in disaster mgmt? i’m not really sure what they’re up to, but it’s in our back yard. good pictures.
No, I haven’t heard about that. Do you have a link? I’m sure Dr. Jett would be interested if he’s not already aware of it.
Ruby-
It was great to meet you at NTC.
Thanks for sharing these powerful pictures – I only wish I would have had the time to really go see the city while I was in New Orleans.