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 21

We refer to the issue as “Women & Water: Calling” because collectively these articles demonstrate the ways that water calls to people, drawing women...

By Laurie Moberg

Feature

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Historically, Coast Salish female identity depended upon water. Waterways provided women with countless economic opportunities, fostered family ties, created plentiful food sources, and encouraged...

By Alexandra M. Peck

Feature

Collaboration for a Common Goal

We seek to tell a story that demonstrates how combining a common goal with compromise and deliberate action leads to creative solutions and meaningful...

By Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson

Feature

How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

As a work of social choreography, Niimikaage is meant to listen to the movement of the Mississippi River through the lives of people connected...

By Victoria Bradford Styrbicki

Geographies

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

Using GIS mapping, I can identify at-risk communities most impacted by water-related natural disasters in the Houston Metropolitan Area (HMA), which is highly susceptible...

By Kristin Osiecki

In Review

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Open Rivers contacted Natalie Warren, author of Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic, to talk about her...

By Natalie Warren and Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Perspectives (Peer Review)

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Endless hours writing and analyzing samples in the lab was not the most difficult part of graduate school, however. It was walking into a...

By Ayooluwateso Coker

Perspectives

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

The association between WASH services and gendered vulnerability to violence in rural locales and urban slums in developing countries has received the most study,...

By Becky L. Jacobs

Perspectives

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

In the Midwest, women landowners are one of the most powerful populations who can effect real change in water quality. Their potential, however, has...

By Linda Shenk, Jean Eells, and Wren Almitra

Primary Sources

Time and Trauma

Through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with 258 households in Mathare during 2016 and 2017, I found that women faced huge challenges and...

By Anindita Sarkar

Teaching and Practice (Peer Review)

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and Together

With more-than-human mentors as teachers and guides, we ask of ourselves, and each of you readers: What does it mean to know a place...

By Marijke Hecht, Michelle King, and Shimira Williams

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