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Architecture Students To Design New Orleans Post-Katrina
September
16, 2005
BATON ROUGE
– A group of landscape architecture students at Louisiana
State University will focus their efforts this fall on a development
plan and design for a new New Orleans. “The students will
explore a range of alternatives for rebuilding New Orleans,”
said Bruce Sharky, professor of landscape architecture and one
of the class’ instructors. “Safe and sustainable growth
concepts that explore a more disaster prepared community will
be a principal aspect of their urban design plans, along with
alternativetransportation concepts.”
The students’
designs, according to Sharky, will provide a range of attractive
economic alternatives, with the goal of bringing back relocated
residents to more livable, more attractive neighborhoods.The 25
students involved in the project are seniors in the LSU School
of Landscape Architecture. The Louisiana Sea Grant College Program
is providing funding support for the project.
“They
(students) will produce two- and three-dimensional plans and supporting
materials that demonstrate a number of alternatives for rebuilding
a safer and even more engaging and vibrant New Orleans,”
added Sharky. J. Kevin Risk, assistant professor of landscape
architecture, is the class’ other instructor.
Since its
establishment in 1968, Louisiana Sea Grant has worked to promote
stewardship of the state’s coastal resources through a combination
of research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,economic
and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal zone. Louisiana
Sea Grant, based at Louisiana State University, is part of the
National Sea Grant Program, a network of 30 programs in each of
the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin
Islands.
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