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| #e.22116 | Wednesday 5:30PM to 7:00PM
November 7,
2012 | CM | 1.50 |
2012 Clarkson Chair in Planning Series - Katrina’s Lessons: Of Failed Levees and Failed InstitutionsAPA New York Upstate ChapterBuffalo, NY In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse.
The lecture will focus on the post-Katrina recovery and lessons learned for planners and policymakers to transform the shell of New Orleans into a city that could not only survive but thrive.
Instructors: Edward J. Blakely Professor Edward J. Blakely, U.S. Studies Centre, University at Sydney - Blakely is Honorary Professor of Urban Policy at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, having previously served for two years as Executive Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration, the "recovery czar" for New Orleans following the devastation of hurricane Katrina.
One of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of urban policy, Blakely has been Dean of the School of Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California and Dean of the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University in New York City. He has also held professorial appointments at the University of California Berkeley, the University of Southern California and the University of Sydney. An international disaster recovery expert, Blakely played a lead role in recovery efforts for the September 11th attacks in New York City, and in Oakland, Calif., following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and a major wildfire there in 1991. He recently published a book on his experience in New Orleans, My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina.
Professor Blakely is author of four books and more than one hundred scholarly articles as well as scores of essays and opinion pieces. His publications include Fortress America, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, and Rural Communities in Advanced Industrial Society. He also hosts his own weekly podcast at www.blakelycitytalk.com.
Blakely's extensive record of public service includes advising the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, state and federal governments in Australia and the United States, as well as governments in Korea, Japan, Sweden, Indonesia, New Zealand and Vietnam.
A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Blakely earned his BA at the University of California Riverside, an MA in Latin American history at UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Education and Management at UCLA
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