This is a narrative on how the Lower Ninth could be improved. This is a story of a little boy named Lucas and his best friend Julian. They went to the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter school. Every evening they would go the baseball park in the area to play and hangout with friends. One day when Lucas was returning home from school (which is a longer walk compared to Julian). He was confronted by a group of people who stole his left over lunch money and beast him up. When Lucas’s mother found about this, she was furious and went to talk to the mayor. The mayor calmed her down by saying that there are a group Urban Design students from Iowa State University that are coming to help and make the Lower Ninth a safer place for children and anyone. The students from Iowa State University met with the youth and the community to understand what is needed and how they can make the place safer. They came up with ideas of having safe corridors which are soft policed by people and surveillance cameras, Vacant properties are converted into places like club houses where the youth can hangout, learn and socialize, Incorporating Play Nola sites for younger kids, painting roads of the corridor to make people aware that this place child friendly, Illuminating the streets so that even in the night it is safe for someone young to get home.
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