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CSS Summer Internship
This year’s class of summer interns have come from across the United States to work in the CSS. Graduate students from planning, landscape architecture, architecture, geography, coastal science, and engineering are working together to learn the complexities and challenges facing coastal Louisiana. Each student brings experiences from his or her...
The Lower 9th Ward and bayou Bienvenue: Design Strategies and Scenarios for Change
During the first year of the CSS, our primary project area was the Central Wetlands Unit and the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina’s disproportionate toll on the Lower 9th Ward was directly related to the pre-existing environmental degradation of the natural environment surrounding New Orleans. The cypress...