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Cornerstones

A documentary and advocacy project for the overlooked and threatened landmarks of New Orleans
  • Status: Active
  • Submitted: Sun Mar 30, 2008   |   Last updated: Sun Mar 30, 2008
  • Location(s): Orleans all of New Orleans
  • Topics(s): Community development, Other
  • Tag(s): Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Documentation
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Details

We’re inviting New Orleanians (living here and elsewhere) to join in our efforts to advocate for the overlooked and threatened landmarks of our city by nominating a place that is important to their community or the city at-large. With this resident input, we will document the intersection of places and people that make NO unique through interviews, architectural drawings, and photography.

Project Scope: Vision, Aim, & Objectives

Why this project is being done:
We feel recogonizing the role our city's everyday monuments play in our community environments and social networks is crucial in the redevelopment and demolition climate of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Who or what this project would impact:
This project intends to be representative of New Orleans' many neighborhoods and cultural groups, but more importantly it will bring attention to places that have not been formally recogonized for their social or cultural importance in the city.
Project intends to address:
The project is intened as a counter planning and preservation dialogue, since often the human element of places and neighborhoods gets overlooked in these formal processes.

Project Timeline

Ongoing. The project launched spring 2008 with a Neighborhood Story Project publication and currently involves collecting nominations for additional sites to document and the creation of an online registry about these local landmarks.

Project Plan & Participants

Other people and/or organizations involved in this project:
Neighborhood Story Project published our 2008 spring book release Cornerstones: Celebrating the Everyday Monuments and Gathering Places of New Orleans Neighborhoods. Tulane City Center also supported the book and is a partner with the ongoing project
Plan for implementing this project:
Currently emphasis for the project is on developing the web site and web site registry of New Orleans cornerstones.

Help or Additional Resources Needed

Help needed from other people:
First, we need place nominations to guide our research. Second, we could use help with field work, especially anyone skilled in architectural documentation(namely line drawings and photography). Third, we could use web assistance.

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