ORLEANS PARISH: REBUILDING A COMMUNITY POST HURRICANE KATRINA By: Vernessa Shih Fall 2012 Midterm PP M224A GIS Professor Kawano
How has the rebuilding/repopulating of Orleans Parish changed from Pre-Katrina conditions? Hurricane Katrina August 23, 2005 to August 31, 2005 FEMA Locations ORLEANS PARISH POPULATION DENSITY Lower Ninth Ward Comparing Neighborhoods
Hurricane KatrinaAug 23, 2005Aug 31, 2005
Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA REGIONS, HEADQUARTERS, and HURRICANE KATRINA EFFECTED STATES FEMA Regions 4, 5, 6
Region Area: Louisiana, Orleans Parish
Focus Area: Orleans Parish
Total Population Shifts from 2000 to 2009
Focus Area: Lower Ninth Ward Source: ESRI, Google Earth
Comparing Neighborhoods Black or African AmericanWhitesAsians American IndiansOther 2 Race Categories Hispanic (any race) Lower Ninth Ward Orleans Parish Louisiana USA Source: ESRI, CENSUS
Comparing Neighborhoods Black or African AmericanWhiteAsian American IndianOther 2 race categories Hispanic (any race) Lower Ninth Orleans Parish Louisiana US Source: ESRI, CENSUS
Hypothesis/Discussion Lower Ninth Ward Insurance values of home Local discrimination Effects of insurance pay out discrimination on the population of returning Black/African American Residents Commission on Discrimination in Federal Funding is halting all pay outs Studying Levees, FEMA reactions New investments in green building technology
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Racial Discrimination in Insurance Pay outs Potential parallels with Hurricane Sandy? Final Proposals “Famous” Jersey Shore New Jersey Cabs 86 th Street Station
Mad Skillz Sources: ESRI/Social Explorer NASA CENSUS.gov/American Fact Finder National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration FEMA GOOGLE EARTH US Geological Survey Greater New Orleans Community Data Center Regional Planning Commission for New Orleans City of New Orleans Inset map – US, Louisiana, Orleans Point or line graduated symbol – graduated colored symbols, Hurricane Katrina Categories Geoprocessing – Clipping Geoprocessing – Joining Geocoding – FEMA Locations Google Earth – KML/KMZ Custom Shape files – Water boundaries for Orleans Parish Comparison Charts/Graphs