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14 October 2008
Lower 9th Ward
While the Lower 9th Ward looked like this for just a few weeks, it is going to look like the following photos for some time to come. The first one shows how high the Industrial Canal is on a low day compared to the residential neighborhood down below (click on the photo to see it enlarged a little). This empty road best represents what I saw. But how many half empty or completely empty road photos can I include? Don't let the photos of a few surviving houses trick you into thinking that things were OK. One thing that the photos can't capture is the scale of the devastation - these are just pictures of houses that weren't damaged enough to tear down. This was an expansive area and I could have taken photos almost indefinitely. The scale of the damage is hard to grasp even after walking around some. And I remain pretty unconvinced about the solutions (examples coming soon).
Director of SEBS General Honors Program and Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at tulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu
Research online at:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-9190
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lOLIQZ8AAAAJ&hl=en
https://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/geohealth/
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