Press

For over a decade, regional, local, and national press have recognized Small Center and our partner organizations for contributing to a New Orleans shaped by its residents.

2019

Publication	Project
Pilot program aims to update 1960s housing stock in Terrytown Nola.com	Terrytown Neighborhood Revitalization Study

2018

Publication	Project
Sites of Resistance Chronicles New Orleans History of Dissent The Gambit	Sites of Resistance
Ride New Orleans: Setting the Transit Agenda Street Films	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy

2017

Publication	Project
Sites of Resistance in New Orleans WTUL 91.5 FM	Sites of Resistance
New, More Welcoming Respite Spot at Ozanam Inn Clarion Herald	Ozanam Inn Day Space
New Custom-Designed Benches Raise Spirits of Homeless Men at Ozanam Inn New Orleans Advocate	Ozanam Inn Day Space
Architecture Students Bring Life to Local Shelter Tulane University News	Ozanam Inn Day Space
Adam Savage's Maker Tour: Small Center for Collaborative Design Tested	Ozanam Inn Day Space
Ace Hotel, Sophie B. Wright School Among Winners of AIA New Orleans Architecture Awards NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Hollygrove Greenline Shade-Water Pavilion
Teaming up for a healthier neighborhood BC/BS	Healthy Tremé Housing Research
Grow Dat Youth Farm, Tulane City Center The Design Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education	Grow Dat Youth Farm

2016

Publication	Project
Affordable Housing Exhibit pops up at Tulane City Center Gambit	The Cost of Home: Local Models and National Policy for Affordability

2015

Publication	Project
One Year Later: Where Things Stand With The CBD Transit Hub Ride New Orleans	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Parisite Ushers in a New Era of NOLA Skate Culture Antigravity Magazine	Parisite Skate Park
Parisite Skate Park Officially Opens in New Orleans Gambit	Parisite Skate Park
New Parisite Skateboard Park, a $350,000 Project, Opens Saturday in Gentilly NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Parisite Skate Park
New Orleans Opens First Official Skatepark in Gentilly Neighborhood WWLTV	Parisite Skate Park
Mayor Landrieu Opens New Orleans' First Public Skate Park WWL	Parisite Skate Park
How Katrina Sparked a Black Skateboarding Renaissance in New Orleans Vice	Parisite Skate Park
First Public Skate Park Comes to Gentilly WGNO	Parisite Skate Park
Check It Out: New Orleans Opens Parisite Skate Park -- the First Public Skate Park in City's History The New Orleans Advocate	Parisite Skate Park
$350,000 Skateboard Park, 'The Parisite,' Opens in Gentilly NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Parisite Skate Park
After Katrina, Tulane's Architecture School became a Community Builder NPR	Magellan Street Garden
New Orleans Street Performer Guide Looks to Protect Musicians, Clarify Law NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Guide to New Orleans Street Performance
A Tribute to the Big Chief: Donald Harrison Sr.'s Family Turn Their Yard into a Mardi Gras Indian Cultural Center NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Guardians Institute
Gonsoulin Cattle Ranch meets Grow Dat Youth Farm at picnic-style party NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Grow Dat Youth Farm
After Katrina, Tulane's Architecture School Became a Community Builder NPR - WWNO	Grow Dat Youth Farm
City program breathes life into Bayou Road, one of New Orleans’ oldest thoroughfares The New Orleans Advocate	Façade Renew
Bayou Road Buildings Get Facade Improvements Preservation in Print	Façade Renew
As New Orleans Recovers, Will The Dew Drop Inn Swing Again? NPR	Dew Drop Inn
Creating “Permanently Affordable” Rental Housing in New Orleans Non Profit Quarterly	2739 Palmyra
As New Orleans Rents Rise, Nonprofit Creates ‘permanently Affordable’ Apartments NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	2739 Palmyra

2014

Publication	Project
Ride New Orleans Hosts “Day of Action,” RTA Hosts its Own Press Conference Gambit	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Ride New Orleans Calls on RTA to Build a Public Transportation Center in the CBD NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Is a permanent transit hub in the CBD’s Future? Curbed: New Orleans	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Group Says RTA Bus Stops Not Up to Par WDSU	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Demonstration Leads RTA to Reveal Project Plans New Orleans City Business	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Demo Aims to Improve CBD Transit Hub NOLA Defender	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
Busy Canal Street Bus Stop Lacks Infrastructure for Riders Gambit	Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy
This 7th Ward Skate Park Comes with a Water Management Plan WWNO	Parisite Skate Park
Parisite Skate Park Plans Are Set to Roll in Gentilly Curbed New Orleans	Parisite Skate Park
New Orleans Parisite Skatepark gets City Planning Commission Approval NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Parisite Skate Park
Ripping the fabric of a neighborhood — and, with it, the spirit of democracy The Lens NOLA	L9 Visioning Coalition
Algiers Vietnamese Community Planning Neighborhood Park The New Orleans Advocate	Hung Dao Heritage Garden
Out of Desert Dust, a Miracle on a Shoestring The New York Times	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Hurricane recovery gave New Orleans reason to band together to offer more healthful food The Washington Post	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Grow Dat’s City Park farm yields an Unexpected Crop; Good Jobs for Youth The Lens NOLA	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Grow Dat Youth Farm at City Park teaches leadership through growing NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Grow Dat Youth Farm
New Orleans announces $1 million in business-facelift money for blighted corridors NOLA.com \| The Times Picayune	Façade Renew
Iconic Central City landmark to be resurrected Louisiana Weekly	Dew Drop Inn
Dew Drop Inn to reopen WDSU News	Dew Drop Inn
Storytelling Project Fosters Neighborhood Cohesion in Post-Katrina New Orleans Next City	Cornerstones
Circle Food Store shuttered after Hurricane Katrina reopens WWLTV, Eyewitness News	Circle Food Store
Circle Food Store reopens in the 7th Ward with pomp, circumstance and bell peppers Gambit	Circle Food Store
Circle Food Store opens again after eight-year struggle to rebuild NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Circle Food Store

2013

Publication	Project
With Some Help From Tulane, a Community Garden Sprouts Into a Hub for Learning About Food and the Environment NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Magellan Street Garden
Fighting Floodwater to Grow A Garden and a Healthy New Orleans Next City	Magellan Street Garden
Tulane University Builds Big Chief’s Abode Offbeat Magazine	Guardians Institute
Urban Oases Architectural Record	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Farm to Class Green Building and Design	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Best New Architecture; 5 Blueprints to Success New Orleans Magazine	Grow Dat Youth Farm

2012

Publication	Project
The Grow Dat Youth Farm & SEEDocs: Mini-Documentaries on the Power of Public-Interest Design ArchDaily	Grow Dat Youth Farm
SeeDocs: Grow Dat Youth Farm Social Economic Environmental Design Network	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Grow Dat Youth Farm Nurtures Leaders WWNO	Grow Dat Youth Farm
An Urban Farm Puts New Orleans Teens to Work Citylab	Grow Dat Youth Farm

2011

Publication	Project
Hollygrove Greenline Plots Improvements NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Hollygrove Greenline Shade-Water Pavilion
Healthy Foundation Tulane New Wave	Guardians Institute
Cultural, health, education programs find home with Guardians Institute’s new building Tulane Prevention Research Center	Guardians Institute
Grow Dat Youth Farm nurtures young leaders amid planting NOLA.com \| The Times-Picayune	Grow Dat Youth Farm
Dirty South: Youth farms keep New Orleans teens in school gardens Grist	Grow Dat Youth Farm

2010

Publication	Project
Transforma New Orleans 2005-2010 Jess Garz	Storypod
Saving Circle Food Store Tulane New Wave	Circle Food Store
Circle Food Store Owner Presents Plans to City Council Louisiana Weekly	Circle Food Store

2009

Publication	Project
URBANbuild: The Fourth Generation Dwell	URBANbuild
An Unsentimental Education Residential Architect	URBANbuild
Insurgent Architecture: An Alternative Approach to Design-Build Journal of Architecture Education	CITYbuild Consortium of Schools

2008

Publication	Project
Tulane Nears Completion on Third New Orleans House Architectural Record	URBANbuild
Giving Shelter: Students Scramble to Design and Construct a New Orleans House The New York Times	URBANbuild
'Architecture School': Rebuilding New Orleans on Reality TV New York The Sun	URBANbuild
"Architecture School" Reality Show Premieres on Sundance Inhabitat	URBANbuild
"Architecture School" Sundance Channel	URBANbuild
Charting New Orleans Everday Landmarks NPR: All Things Considered	Cornerstones

2007

Publication	Project
“URBANbuild II” Exhibition Ogden Museum	URBANbuild
URBANbuild Students Bring Hope to New Orleans Architectural Record	URBANbuild
Rebuilding New Orleans, Post Katrina Style New York Times	URBANbuild
Reinventing New Orleans DOMUS 905	CITYbuild Consortium of Schools

2006

Publication	Project
“URBANbuild I” Exhibition Ogden Museum	URBANbuild
URBANbuild.designBUILD studio work Venice Biennale Exhibition	URBANbuild
URBANbuild Exhibit Housing Solutions Summit	URBANbuild
Project New Orleans African-American Art Museum in the Treme	URBANbuild
Design for the Other 90% Cooper Hewitt exhibition and book	CITYbuild Consortium of Schools

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