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ORLEANS PARISH: REBUILDING A COMMUNITY POST HURRICANE KATRINA By: Vernessa Shih Fall 2012 Midterm PP M224A GIS Professor Kawano

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ORLEANS parish: Rebuilding a community Post hurricane Katrina . By: Vernessa Shih Fall 2012 Midterm. PP M224A GIS Professor Kawano. Hurricane Katrina August 23, 2005 to August 31, 2005 FEMA Locations ORLEANS PARISH POPULATION DENSITY Lower Ninth Ward - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: ORLEANS parish:  Rebuilding a community Post hurricane Katrina

ORLEANS PARISH: REBUILDING A COMMUNITY POST HURRICANE KATRINA

By: Vernessa Shih Fall 2012 Midterm

PP M224A GISProfessor Kawano

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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

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Hurricane Katrina Aug 23, 2005 Aug 31, 2005

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Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA REGIONS, HEADQUARTERS, and HURRICANE KATRINA

EFFECTED STATES

FEMA Regions 4, 5, 6

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Region Area: Louisiana, Orleans Parish

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Focus Area: Orleans Parish

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Total Population Shifts from 2000 to 2009

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Focus Area: Lower Ninth Ward

Source: ESRI, Google Earth

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Comparing Neighborhoods - 2000

2000

Black or African

AmericanWhite

sAsian

sAmerican Indians Other

2 Race Categories

Hispanic (any race)

Lower Ninth Ward 98.3 0.5 0 0 0.1 0.6 0.5Orleans Parish 66.6 23.6 2.3 0.2 0.2 1 3.1Louisiana 32.3 62.6 1.2 0.5 0.1 0.9 2.4USA 12.1 69.2 3.6 0.7 0.3 1.6 12.5

Orleans Parish Lower Ninth Ward

Black WhitesAsiansAmerican IndiansOther2 Race CategoriesHispanic (any race)

Source: ESRI, CENSUS

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Comparing Neighborhoods - 2010

Lower Ninth Ward

Black or African Amer-icanWhiteAsianAmerican IndianOther2 race categoriesHispanic (any race)

Orleans Parish

Black or African American White Asian

American Indian Other

2 race categories

Hispanic (any race)

Lower Ninth 95.5 1.8 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.8 1.5Orleans Parish 59.6 30.5 2.9 0.2 0.3 1.3 5.2Louisiana 32 62.2 1.5 0.7 1.5 1.6 4.2US 12.2 63.7 4.7 0.7 0.4 1.9 16.3

Source: ESRI, CENSUS

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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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THANK YOU! Interested in finding out more? Check outRebuilding Together and the Make it Right Foundation

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• Racial Discrimination in Insurance Pay outs

• Potential parallels with Hurricane Sandy?

Final Proposals

“Famous” Jersey Shore

New Jersey Cabs

86th Street Station

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Mad SkillzSources:

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