Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana

Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, Forensic Architecture, Formats, Middle Density, Territory and mobility, Topics, Urban Paradigms

Air quality, Cartography, Computational Fluids Dynamics, COVID-19, Cultural legacy, Data, Dataviz & simulation, Economy, Extreme environments, Health crisis, Heritage, Industrial context, Inequality, Mapping, Pollution, Racism, Research, Simulation, USA

A stretch of the Mississippi River once called ‘Plantation Country’ is now the ‘Petrochemical Corridor’, known to those who breathe its toxic air as ‘Death Alley’. Using advanced techniques in cartography and fluid dynamics, the latest investigation by Forensic Architecture (FA) supports ongoing and future action against further industrial expansion by local community activists RISE St. James and other groups of local activists across the region.