Cacophonous Geographies: The Symbolic and Material Landscapes of Race
Anna Livia Brand, Professor
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.
This project explores how racism and racial geographies were reenacted after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It traces the redevelopment of three neighborhoods and the evolution of planning processes and development decisions, asking who they most benefit and who they most exclude.
Role: Undergraduate students working on this project will focus on four main tasks, 1) research on post-Katrina planning processes; 2) archival research on the history of three neighborhoods; 3) literature review of post-Katrina scholarship; and 4) preliminary plan analysis of post-Katrina development plans.
Qualifications: Students should have good organization skills, be willing to learn how to organize archival research queries, have good communication skills and be willing to develop their skills in plan analysis. Students should be familiar with Microsoft excel and able to create comprehensive spreadsheets for archival materials and plan analysis.
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Social Sciences