This project will focus on the opportunity to rebuild flood-damaged neighborhoods in ways that promote health for families and children. The first activity in this project will have members of the team working with city planning committees to educate them about "healthy neighborhood" ideas and advocate for inclusion of these concepts in city and state plans. The team will conduct a survey of residents about their priorities for rebuilt neighborhoods, including both neighborhood quality survey questions (e.g., safety, compactness, diversity, convenience to transit, etc.) and neighborhood feature survey questions (e.g., sidewalks, bike paths, grocery stores, lack of liquor stores, billboards, etc.). The results of the survey will be summarized in a report presented to the planning bodies. The project team will also organize meetings between residents from at least one heavily affected neighborhood and City Council members to discuss the residents' priorities for rebuilding a healthy neighborhood.

Achieving healthy neighborhood design in a rebuilt New Orleans