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The levees only approach for water resource management, where there are streets being developed more back and back into the city away from the banks. One thing that happens is that this removes the historical deposition of settlement and removes a lot of soil and in new orleans, that natural process of recharging groundwater, etc. as I mentioned before, the levees only approach is only relevant to levees, canals, and other things.

this created a new social, and racial geographies. White folks tended to remain in higher ground, and stayed further in the suburb areas. This place has to do with increased value in rent and high ground. We also have patterns of redlining from the housing authority. Largely black communities find it difficult to accumulate capital. We also have a practice called restrictive de-coveneance. "You can't sell or rent to a non-white person in this neighborhood."

We also then have in post ww2 areas where project housing development and continued white flight. In 1927 we had a huge flood, and it was the largest flood disaster in american history. New Orleans did not flood but many of the other places to help. The city leaders decided to dynamite the levees to the east of the city, to help relieve the pressure on the levees protecting the city. This led to the flood control act of 1928 where the corps of engineers were budgeted to create a lot of technologies to control the flood areas. In fact that 1927 flood was able to jump its banks.

This led to a real transformation of the wetlands, also in post war, there's a major expansion of the petrochemical industries, plus 33 oil wells off the coast, but also these major oil pipelines that come into the wetlands. this massive amount of digging canals to lay pipes, led to a lot of erosion, and caused the wetlands to be more and more damaged by the construction in the area, there was quite a bit of lost land due to the effects of storm surges, hurricanes, etc.

The Mississippi river gulf outlet canal got funneled down into the area of the canals that were built between 1958 and 1968 to help commerce, but not great for commerce.

A lot of middle class votes were