Louisiana
The Sum Of New Orleans Is More Than Its Parts
While much attention is being focused on rebuilding and repair, focus should also be placed on regaining the culture.
Can New Orleans Regain Lost Charm?
Rebuilding New Orleans will involve a lot more than construction.
Toxic Time Bomb: Katrina Environmental Impact
Sewage, toxic chemicals and decaying corpses will have an immense environmental impact not only on New Orleans, but on the Gulf of Mexico as well.
New Orleans' Toxic Tide
Chemicals leaking from cars and factories will cause one of costliest environmental cleanups ever.
Learning from Ground Zero in New Orleans
In order to create a new New Orleans, we need to re-evaluate the role of government in housing the poor, redefine what we mean by homeland security, and learn to love our cities again.
New Orleans' Looming Environmental Disasters
Officials try to get grip on post-Katrina environmental problems that are likely to begin cropping up.
Former New Orleans Planning Director Speaks
Kristina Ford discusses what went wrong and how New Orleans should rebuild.
New Orleans Will Be Rebuilt, Here's Why
George Friedman outlines the role of New Orleans in the global economy. The US fought wars over the site and it remains essential and irreplaceable.
Use Katrina To Make The Big Easy Better
The success of urban recovery depends most on how a city was doing before the disaster struck. New Orleans had been declining for years, according to Newsweek's Jonathan Alter.
How Will New Orleans Rebuild?
While disasters bring out the best in people, long-term reconstruction often brings out the worst. How will New Orleans handle its reconstruction?
Why Did New Orleans' 17th Street Levee Fail?
The section of New Orleans' 17th Street levee that was breached was recently upgraded. Why did it fail?
Should New Orleans Be Rebuilt?
Cities, it turns out, tend to get rebuilt no matter what. But what will the new New Orleans look like? Will it be the same city?
Lack of Automobility Key to New Orleans Tragedy
The real cause of the tragedy in New Orleans was the lack of automobiles for evacuees, argues Randall O'Toole.
Hurricane Exposes Lousiana's Dirty Secret
The aftermath of Hurrican Katrina exposes a festering secret Louisiana has hidden well -- its failure to help its neediest citizens.
New Orleans Topography
NASA offers simulated views of the effects of storm surge flooding on Lake Pontchartrain and the New Orleans area.
Katrina: An 'Unnatural Disaster'
Hurricane Katrinia was an 'unnatural disaster' if ever there was one, says Theodore Steinberg, an environmental historian.
New Orleans Disaster Has Political Planning Roots
Human interference with the flow of the Mississippi for a century is one of the root causes of the devastation in New Orleans.
An Interview With New Orleans' Former Planning Director
The former director of city planning discusses what will be needed to rebuild the city.
Bush Cut New Orleans Flood Control Funding
Former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal criticizes Bush administration's environmental and emergency planning policies.
Hurricane Katrina: A Man-made Disaster?
Some scientists believe that storms such as Hurricane Katrina that are sometimes called an act of God or a natural disaster, are partly man-made.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
