May 30, 2007

What's Happening in New Orleans?

CHICAGO — August will mark the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — and New Orleans continues to struggle with its recovery. Numerous recovery plans, policies, and challenges continue to make post-disaster recovery planning in New Orleans a slow and complex process.

The next American Planning Association Tuesdays at APA forum on June 12 will help decipher the different recovery plans and remaining challenges for the city.

Rob Olshansky, AICP, professor and interim head of the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, will help clarify the complex planning issues and offer his analysis of what to expect in the coming months.

Olshansky is an expert on post-disaster recovery planning, environmental impact assessments, and planning and policy for earthquake risks. During the 2004-2005 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Japan's Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute, studying post-disaster recovery.

Tuesdays at APA will begin at 5 p.m. at APA's office at 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600 (across the street from the Art Institute of Chicago). The event is free and open to the public.

Upcoming Tuesdays at APA events include completing Chicago's lakefront and preserving Chicago's greystone housing stock.

Tuesdays at APA

Tuesdays at APA is a monthly after-work lecture and discussion series. Each month, practicing planners and researchers will discuss the latest ideas, concepts and research in the planning field. For more information and upcoming events, visit www.planning.org/tuesdaysatapa.

Contact

Roberta Rewers, APA Public Affairs, 312-786-6395; rrewers@planning.org