Community Planning

• Above Board: Enhanced Floodplain and Stormwater Management in Tangipahoa Parish, LA

  Conduct an assessment of relevant regulations to coordinate legal and policy implementation mechanisms for flood control and stormwater management Update enforcement protocols and conduct staff training to meet and enhance...
  Community Planning
• Campti Historic District Strategic Plan

  This project engages students and faculty from Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans with community members to conduct separate but coordinated urban design studios. The community needs...
  Community Planning
• Inland from the Coast: A multi-scalar approach to regional climate change responses

  Gathering and disseminating local ecological knowledge about landscape functionality Providing high quality, accessible information on current and future environmental conditions to influence community decision-making Evaluating past events to support adaptation...
  Research, Capacity Building, Visual Communication, Community Planning
• Mayors’ Institute on City Design

  The Mayors’ Institute was intended to address the following challenges: how can design create a path for the American City to become resilient to an increasingly dynamic environment? Moreover, can...
  Community Planning
• River to Bayou: Restoration and Resilience – The Central Wetland Unit and the Lower 9th Ward

  A team of architecture, landscape architecture, coastal ecology, economics, and engineering faculty and students designed new strategies for the Lower 9th Ward’s future. The project also engaged in community outreach...
  Community Planning
• Louisiana Community Resilience Institute

  The project goals include 1) build upon the foundation of LRAP; 2) help the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to connect community and large scale environmental planning; 3)...
  Community Planning
• Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program (LRAP)

  LRAP was founded and developed by the CSS with the state’s Office of Community Development – Disaster Recovery Unit (OCD-DRU) and with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and...
  Community Planning
• Vulnerability and Resilience in Threatened Coastal Louisiana Communities

  This study examines the hypothesis that a large part of individual and community resilience results from strong but dispersed spatial networks that link people socially and economically across the broader...
  Community Planning