Our fall 2024 issue of the Water Map focuses on the topic of levees. Interested in learning more? Here are some of the readings and resources that informed our work. 

From Algiers Point to Bucktown to Lincoln Beach, explore some of the many locations where people in New Orleans and Bulbancha live on or around levees through the camera lens of Christine "Cfreedom" Brown.

Collection of Collections on finding a visual identity for the City of New Orleans's $141 million Gentilly Resilience District.

For Black people, we must remember water as sites of violence and trauma, and also resistance, healing, and transformation.

A personal history of a tattoo and beloved waterway.

Two maps depict the path of the Mississippi River and the land around it. What do these maps show us about how we have understood the river and our relationship to it?

A brief introduction to why this project is both "Water Map New Orleans" and "Water Map Bulbancha," with resources for learning more about Bulbancha.

An introduction to the origins of Vietnamese canal gardens in New Orleans East.

Since summer 2020, a multidisciplinary team has been collecting data, researching histories, developing graphics, and creating prototypes.

Where can I fish or put a boat in water? Or maybe visit with alligators? How do I learn about drainage pump stations or where my sewage is treated?

Rivers are usually in the lowest part of a landscape, but that's not the case here in the delta.