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A City-Works co-sponsored event:
Avi Friedman Lecture - May 7
City-Works has partnered with
several other organizations to sponsor a lecture by Dr. Avi Friedman, an international expert on
affordable housing. The City of New Orleans Office of Recovery Management
has asked City-Works, AIA New Orleans, The Tulane/Xavier Center for
Bio-Environmental Research, the Department of Planning and Urban Studies
at the University of New Orleans and the Tulane University School of
Architecture to co-sponsor Dr Friedman's visit.
The recent report by the Public Affairs
Research Council notes that the most critical need for New Orleans is
affordable housing. Dr Friedman is a noted expert in this area. He will
speak at Tulane University's Richardson Memorial Building(Tulane
School of Architecture) Room 201 on May 7, 2007 at 7 PM.
Statement by Dr. Friedman: "As
professor and director of the Affordable Homes Program at McGill University,
I was involved in the development of housing prototypes that were
designed to reduce housing costs. Those prototypes have been widely
implemented across North America and the world. The designs are
based on resource efficiency with the objective of bringing their costs
down, but also to create sustainable communities. In my talk, I
will describe these prototypes, their development process and site
applications both at the unit and the community levels. I will
illustrate my talk with examples from places in Canada and Europe."
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Website
of the Month
A couple of months ago, City-Works shared the SPUR
website as one of our organizational models. Our other model has always
been the Regional Planning Association (RPA) out of New YorkNew Jersey.
For more info about the RPA, click HERE.
Regional Plan Association
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Greeting Everyone!
City-Works is co-sponsoring two really exciting
discussions in early May: a lecture on affordable housing by one of the
leading international experts on May 7, and a roundtable discussion
about our Cultural Economy on May 1. Please read below to
see some of the work we have been doing in New Orleans. And spread the
word about City-Works as we work to help New Orleans plan for a
brighter tomorrow.
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Speaker Series - Our Cultural Economy
May 1 - 8:30 AM
A Breakfast Roundtable
City-Works, Horizon Initiative, and Neighborhoods
Partnership Network have
partnered to present a breakfast roundtable update on the status
of New Orleans' cultural industries for business and civic leaders,
non-profits, neighborhood association leaders, and local and national
media to promote awareness of the growth and new developments emerging
in our post-Katrina economy. The panel, representing industries
such as film/video, music, theatre, visual arts, crafts, design,
architecture, culinary arts, etc. will share their experiences working
in post-Katrina New Orleans and includes speakers from WWOZ, the Jazz and
Heritage Foundation, Horizon Initiative, as well as musicians,
architects, designers, and visual artists.
This
is a unique chance to learn straight from the sources how New Orleans'
cultural economy; the backbone of our economy, is fairing.
Both
Horizon Initiative and NPN have outstanding opportunities to see local
music and support their organizations between Jazz Fest weekends.
To seen the Hot 8 Brass Band or Kermit Ruffin, check out their
websites: Horizon Initiative and NPN.
LOCATION: Chateau Sonesta - Bourbon and Iberville
TIME: 8:30 AM Tuesday, May 1st.
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Blakely Bike Ride
 Dr. Blakely led Councilwoman Stacey Head and LaToya
Cantrell, President of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, and 20 or
so other cyclists on a rainy day tour of the Broadmoor community in
middle April, followed by a tour of the community's Rosa Keller Library
project. This is the third of Dr. Blakely's periodic bicycle tours of
New Orleans neighborhoods. His stated goal on these rides is to see up
close and personal what is happening in the communities as they
rebuild: "These neighborhood bike rides are a way for me and the
citizens to take a holistic view of the city's rebuilding needs."
By
bicycle, you can see house by house the damage done, and heartengly,
what work is being done to fix it. A car drive through the same
community still insulates the viewer. I suggest everyone take the time
one Saturday to take one of these bike rides in their own communities
to get the best sense of what exactly is and is not happening around
your neighborhood.
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City-Works is looking for
Volunteers
City-Works is looking for volunteers to
help us help New Orleans. Our immediate project for which we need help
is to identify what is happening in New Orleans. This will entail
working collaboratively with city government and other non-profits by
reaching out to them through phone calls and all other means.
If interested, please join us for an
informational meeting May 10 at 5:00 at our office - 841
Carondelet Street. This is our shared space with Global Green and AIA
New Orleans.
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City-Works is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the transformative
rebuilding of New Orleans. For more information about our organization,
please visit us on the web:
City-Works
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