Rebuidling New Orleans: Evaluating the Post-Disaster Planning Process

调查人员将研究卡特里娜飓风过后新奥尔良重建的城市规划。这是一个独特的机会，因为这是这个国家在现代最大的城市规划挑战。具体而言，本研究将研究规划如何影响公共组织、私人投资者和个人的重建决策。规划在实践中实际上是相当复杂的，涉及许多参与者制定许多不同类型的计划。计划是帮助人们做决定的信息片段。这项研究将依靠新闻报道、计划文件、内部备忘录、采访、博客和规划会议的影片来了解计划如何影响具体的重建决策。灾难性的灾难很少发生。这项研究回应了提供知识的关键机会，这些知识可以帮助制定下一次灾难性灾难之后的规划策略。研究结果将有助于市政当局、州政府机构和联邦应急管理局组织未来灾难性灾害后的重建工作。此外，通过扩大对规划如何运作的理解，它将有助于城市规划教育。

The investigators will study urban planning for reconstruction in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. This is a unique opportunity, because it is this nation's greatest urban planning challenge in modern times. Specifically, this research will study how plans affect reconstruction decisions made by public organizations, private investors, and individuals. Planning in practice is actually quite complicated, involving many actors making many different types of plans. Plans are pieces of information that help people to make decisions. The study will rely on news accounts, plan documents, internal memos, interviews, blogs, and films of planning meetings to see how plans affected specific reconstruction decisions. Catastrophic disasters are rare. This research responds to the critical opportunity to provide knowledge that can help develop planning strategies following the next catastrophic disaster. The results will help municipalities, state agencies, and FEMA in organizing for reconstruction following future catastrophic disasters. In addition, it will contribute to urban planning education by broadening understanding of how plans work.