Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans

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ISBN: 9781932364804 | 1932364803
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Copyright: 4/1/2010

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Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. As witnesses and participants, Olshansky and Johnson bring unparalleled detail and insight to the seemingly incomprehensible.

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe	p. 3
How Katrina Became a Catastrophe	p. 8
Foreshadowing the Katrina Catastrophe	p. 15
The Challenges Ahead	p. 20
Order from Chaos: Planning at the State and Federal Levels	p. 23
Money, Politics, Mistrust	p. 23
State and Federal Planning Initiatives	p. 26
Getting Professional Help: The Role of the Private Sector	p. 32
"Louisiana Speaks": Merging State, Federal, and Private-Sector Planning	p. 35
Planning for New Orleans: October 2005-March 2006	p. 39
The Bring New Orleans Back Commission	p. 42
Making the Case for Federal Funds	p. 49
Public Unveiling of the BNOB Planning Strategy	p. 51
Moving Forward: Organizing for Neighborhood Planning	p. 60
The Federal Funding Battle, Act 2	p. 62
Whither the Neighborhood Planning Initiative?	p. 67
Final Chapter in the BNOBC Process	p. 70
Return to Chaos: Spring 2006	p. 73
The Election	p. 75
Neighborhood Planning from the Bottom Up	p. 77
The City Council Takes Action	p. 79
Rockefeller to the Rescue	p. 81
A New Planning Process Begins to Emerge	p. 83
Request for Qualifications	p. 87
A Week in June	p. 90
Selection of the Consultants	p. 97
The Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP)	p. 98
The New Orleans Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plan	p. 115
The Unified New Orleans Plan	p. 127
Citywide Team Orientation	p. 131
Other City Events	p. 134
CSO Orientation	p. 135
District Planning Team Orientation	p. 136
UNOP Goes Public	p. 141
ACORN Housing Fired	p. 142
Community Congress I	p. 143
Beginning Phase Two: Recovery Scenarios	p. 146
Community Congress II	p. 151
The Holiday Season	p. 157
Second Meeting of the UNOP Resource Team	p. 164
Final District Planning Meetings	p. 175
The Last Stretch	p. 175
Community Congress III	p. 177
Final CSO Meeting	p. 180
Official Handoff	p. 182
The Plan	p. 184
Passing the Planning Baton	p. 189
Ed Blakely Comes to New Orleans	p. 189
The Target Areas Plan	p. 193
Planning Commission Hearings for UNOP	p. 196
Interlude: Continuing Federal Funding Issues	p. 201
Interlude: Louisiana Speaks	p. 205
City Planning Commission Approval of UNOP	p. 207
City Council Approval	p. 209
LRA Approval	p. 212
Conclusions	p. 217
Planning Tensions: Speed versus Deliberation	p. 217
The Opportunity to Correct Past Wrongs	p. 219
Planning While in the Fog of War	p. 222
Planning for the Wrong Battle	p. 223
Time Compression	p. 225
Coordinating and Improvising	p. 226
Money	p. 227
Planning and Plans after Disasters	p. 230
Into the Void: Lack of Leadership and Communication	p. 231
Public Perceptions of Planning	p. 234
Public Involvement in Planning	p. 235
Value of Prior Planning	p. 236
Did the Plans Make a Difference?	p. 237
The Future	p. 238
Acknowledgments	p. 243
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 285
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