Louisiana
Learning From Historic Architecture
Many historic architectural details -- shutters, for example -- work because they were honed by time and experience. Why do so many architects and developers ignore these simple and elegant architectural details?
The New New Orleans: 'La Nueva Orleans'
It's likely that much of New Orleans will be rebuilt by Latino immigrants -- many of them in the United States illegally. Many of this new workforce will remain in La Nueva Orleans.
Among the Displaced from New Orleans, Who Will Return?
NPR interviews Craig Colten, a professor of geography and anthropology at Louisiana State University, about how to rebuild New Orleans.
If We're Going To Rebuild New Orleans, Let's Do It Right
Securing New Orleans from further hurricanes is only the first step to rebuilding the city. Market forces will help to take care of the French Quarter, but what about less-fortunate areas of the city? Should they be allowed to 'die'?
Katrina and the Demographics of Destruction and Reconstruction
A nonprofit legal advocacy organization offers a proposal for how New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast region can be rebuilt in a sustainable and socially just way.
Rebuilding New Orleans: Fiscal Conservatives and Visionaries
Fiscal Conservatives and visionaries need to work together to rebuild New Orleans.
Comparing New Orleans To Grand Forks
New Orleans can learn a lot from the flood rebuilding of Grand Forks in 1997.
The 'Dream Team' To Rebuild New Orleans
The Nation magazine outlines their leadership, architecture and planning 'dream team' for rebuilding New Orleans.
New Orleans Industrial Market Bounces Back, Fast
Industrial owners and brokers are scrambling to find space for tenants in post-Katrina New Orleans.
A Blueprint To Rebuild New Orleans
There are three basic needs that must be met in order for New Orleans to come back -- the city's infrastructure, reviving its economy and resettling its population.
Redesigning New Orleans
New Orleans was a deeply flawed city before Katrina, and now, evacuees are stating they won't move back unless changes are made.
Smart Growth Experts Debate How To Rebuild New Orleans
With more than half of the city still underwater, smart-growth experts say now's an ideal time to rethink the entire infrastructure of the city.
Stranded In The Wake Of Disaster
Over 200,000 people without cars in New Orleans had no way out of the city in Katrina's wake.
The Plan To Flood New Orleans?
The most striking fact of the New Orleans catastrophe has received less notice than it deserves: The plan for New Orleans in case of a hit from a very powerful hurricane was to lose the city.
Saving New Orleans For The Future
Protecting the city from future hurricanes and flooding will take decades and cost billions.
What will be the Racial Makeup of a New New Orleans?
Well-off and living on higher ground, many of New Orleans' white residents are counting on their city to be rebuilt without much of the former black population returning.
Seven Steps To A Sustainable New Orleans
Timothy Lange calls for an effort to rebuild New Orleans into an eco-friendly city that could be model for the nation.
An Interview With Tulane's Architecture Dean About New Orleans
Reed Kroloff, the head of Tulane's architecture program talks about rebuilding the Big Easy, and how to preserve the city's 'fine grain'.
Urban Design for Planners 1: Software Tools
This six-course series explores essential urban design concepts using open source software and equips planners with the tools they need to participate fully in the urban design process.
Planning for Universal Design
Learn the tools for implementing Universal Design in planning regulations.
Clanton & Associates, Inc.
Jessamine County Fiscal Court
Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
City of Grandview
Harvard GSD Executive Education
Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions
Salt Lake City
NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
