Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. New Orleans DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
New Orleans-Baton Rouge Metropolitan Area Water Resources Study
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. New Orleans DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Law of Modern Municipal Charters and the Organization of Cities on Commission, City Manager, and Federal Plans
Author: William Kent ClutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dayton, O.
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
This work represents an extension of the author's notes and references collected during a series of investigations ... for the purpose of obtaining a clear insight into the functioning of the improved legal machinery sought to be adapted for securing greater municipal freedom and efficiency.
Housing and Planning References
Author: The Trouble with City Planning
Author: Kristina FordPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168772
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the cityʹs director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed to use these opportunities as a springboard for an eye-opening discussion of the intransigent problems and promising possibilities facing city planners across the nation and beyond. In The Trouble with City Planning, Ford argues that almost no part of our usual understanding of the phrase "city planning" is accurate: not our conception of the plan itself, nor our sense of what city planners do or who plans are made for or how planners determine what citizens want. Most important, our conventional understanding does not tell us how a plan affects what gets built in any city in America. Ford advances several planning innovations that, if adopted, could be crucial for restoring New Orleans, but also transformative wherever citizens are troubled by the results of their cityʹs plan. This keenly intelligent book is destined to become a classic for planners and citizens alike. -- Publisher description.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
New Orleans Under Reconstruction
Author: Michael SorkinPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781684316
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
When the levee system protecting New Orleans failed and was overtopped in August 2005 following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city was flooded, with a loss of 103,000 homes in the metropolitan area. At least 986 Louisiana residents died. The devastation hit vulnerable communities the hardest: the elderly, the poor, and African-Americans. The disaster exposed shocking inequalities in the city. In response, numerous urban plans and myriad architectural projects were proposed. Nearly nine years later, debates about planning and design for recovery, renewal, and resilience continue. This bold, challenging, and informed book gathers together a panorama of responses from writers, architects, planners, historians, and activists-including Mike Davis, Rebecca Solnit, Naomi Klein, Denise Scott Brown, and M. Christine Boyer-and searches for answers to one of the most important questions of our age: How can we plan for the urban future, creating more environmentally sustainable, economically robust, and socially equitable places to live? A 2014 grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts supported in part the publication of this book.
New Orleans Under Reconstruction
Author: Carol M. ReesePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781682747
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster exposed the hideous inequality of the city. In response to the disaster numerous plans, designs and projects were proposed. This bold, challenging and informed book gathers together the variety of responses from politicians, writers, architects and planners and searches for the answers of one of the most important issues of our age: How can we plan for the future, creating a more robust and equal place?
Danger All Around
Author: Joel B. GoldsteenPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788940
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The problem of where to store waste has grabbed a lot of headlines, but people have been slow to realize that the environmental damage caused by storage sites is an even greater menace. This book makes the danger clear, as Joel Goldsteen offers the first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts. Goldsteen has distilled a large landfill-worth of data into a highly readable account of the creation and regulation of waste disposal sites, the health issues that surround them, and the human and natural factors that affect how safe or dangerous they become. Chapters that describe industrial development along the Gulf Coast and the concurrent challenges of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, and hazardous waste control are followed by in-depth descriptions of nine Texas and four Louisiana sites, all representative of problems far beyond the Texas-Louisiana coast.
Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Proposed Port Fourchon Development Plan, Phase IV, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Author: National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone ManagementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Author: