“After the March 13 closure of Tulane University’s campus, we instructors spent a week moving classes online, while students returned home and settled. The question for me and my 28 far-flung students was what to do with a locally-focused environmental journalism class? We quickly turned our final writing project towards the historic crisis at hand.”
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Posted inLand Use
Tulane quest to rezone 'peripheral' properties dominates Master Plan hearing
The former Pike frat house on Broadway is among Tulane properties the university seeks to rezone from “residential” to “institutional”. (Photo by Matt Davis) The Planning Commission as well as the general public logged late hours at City Hall Tuesday night. The occasion was an Amendments to the Master Plan meeting, and while it kicked […]
Posted inOpinion
Making 'Complete Streets' a policy makes complete sense
Dedicated bus and bicycle lanes are among ideas central to the “complete streets” approach to multimodal transportation systems. Photo credit: Flickr/Eurist e.V. By Matthew Rufo, The Lens contributing opinion writer | In recent years, New Orleanians have witnessed a transformation of their streets from motor vehicle speedways to multimodal havens for a variety of users. […]