Design

A man walks his dog in front of an abandoned storefront.

The PulseNovember 15, 2018

Can L.A. build new parks and public spaces without gentrifying away low-income residents?

By Jon Christensen and Allesandro Rigolon

As plans move forward for revitalization of the Los Angeles River, questions arise about the potential for “green gentrification.” Waterfront redevelopments often do not serve everyone in the community; many eyes will be on LA to see if this problem can be solved.

Los Angeles Times

An explosion in the early hours of Sept. 1, 1975 ripped apart this Metairie residence in the Bissonet Plaza area. One house is completely destroyed, and a fire truck is pulled up next to it.

ForumJuly 25, 2018

New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level

Early one September morning in 1975, in a quiet Metairie subdivision west of Transcontinental Drive, a ranch house suddenly exploded in a fireball so powerful it damaged 20 neighboring buildings and broke windows a mile away. The house plus four adjacent homes were reduced to rubble, and 11 people were seriously injured.

Civil Engineering Design Engagement Lower Mississippi River Planning / Policy Policy

Courtesy / New Orleans Redevelopment Authority The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority took this empty lot on Forshey Street and made it into a rain garden.

The PulseDecember 16, 2015

Katrina Helped Usher In An Acceptance And Use of Green Infrastructure

By Bob Marshall

New Orleans is moving from plans to action in a large-scale rethinking of the city’s relationship with water. The city has begun to embrace “green infrastructure” as a water management strategy, rather than just relying on pumping out rainwater.

The Lens

Civil Engineering Design Lower Mississippi River Policy

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 27 | Prospect

Reading these articles, I returned to the idea that these authors are offering us the prospect of seeing the conditions of our environment a...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

Rivers as Creative Ecologies

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson. We explore how activists, artists, scholars, and rivers might co-create riverine engagements that interrupt the extractive capitalist, heteropatriarchal,...

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson

Feature (Peer Review)

Big Stone Lake Stories: Crossing Borders

By Jonee Kulman Brigham. Earth Systems Journey is foremost a form of participatory public art and secondly an environmental education curriculum model. Big Stone...

By Jonee Kulman Brigham

Feature

Fluid Impressions: Connecting Data and Storytelling in Iowa’s Watersheds

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge. As we contend with the environmental degradation...

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge

Geographies

Narmada Parikrama

By Vivek Ji. The waters of the Narmada River flow as though carrying a divine grace, ancient wisdom, and a sense of spirituality. This...

By Vivek Ji

In Review

All We Can Save

By Marceleen Mosher. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine...

By Marceleen Mosher

Perspectives

From Symbol of Wisdom to Inducer of Anxiety: The Ganga Dichotomy

By Saloni Shokeen. The River Ganga, arising from the Western Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh, covers an immense distance of 2,525 kilometers...

By Saloni Shokeen

Primary Sources

Owámniyomni: Still We Gather

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager. Mni Wičoni. Water is life. For many of us, water truly is synonymous with life—and not...

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager

Teaching and Practice

Do You Know Where You Are?

By Laura Rockhold. Over recent years I have been on a journey, one that has deepened my understanding of, and engagement with, the Indigenous...

By Laura Rockhold

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