Urban Planning

New:

EIIP Forum. The Road Back: Long- Term Recovery and the 2008 Iowa Floods.Transcript of presentation on David L. Miller. Feb. 3, 2010. Excellent, 14 page, account of the realities of local recovery.

Smith, Gavin P. (2008), “Review of the U.S. Disaster Assistance Framework: Planning for Recovery” in Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008; Proceedings of the Sessions of the Conference; Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, April 13-16, 2008. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston, VA; 12 pp.

Rockefeller Institute. There are a series of interesting reports at this site; check the Disaster Recovery section for the latest. Two examples are:

1. The Role of Community Rebuilding Plans in Hurricane Recovery. June 3, 2008.
2. GulfGovReports: The Role of Community Rebuilding Plans in the Hurricane Recovery. June 2008. This is the 5th in a series of reports prepared by the Institute. Interesting analysis of plans and the realities of implementation.

Olshansky, Robert B., Planning for Natural Hazards, Pages 140-144 in The Practice of Local Planning, Eighth Edition (Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association and American Planning Association:  2009.

Olshansky, Robert B., Laurie A. Johnson, Kenneth C. Topping (2006) Rebuilding communities following disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles, in Built Environment Vol.32(4): 354-374.

Olshansky, Robert B (2006), Planning after Hurricane Katrina, in Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol.72(2): 147-153.

Olshansky, Robert B., Laurie A. Johnson, Jedidiah Horne, and Brendan Nee. Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans, in Journal of the American Planning Association; volume 74(3), pp. 273-287, Summer 2008.

Olshansky, Robert B., Planning for Natural Hazards, Chapter 3-7 in in The Practice of Local Planning, Eighth Edition (Washington, DC: International City Management Association and American Planning Association:  forthcoming 2008.

Olshansky, Robert B. (2007), Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery, in Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, Island Press.

Olshansky, Robert B., Kobayashi, Ikuo, and Ohnishi, Kazuyoshi, The Kobe Earthquake, Ten Years Later, in Planning, Vol. 71(9): 32-37, October 2005.

Forthcoming:

Smith, Gavin.  2008a.  Planning for Sustainable and Disaster Resilient Communities.Chapter 9.  Pp.?????    In Hazards Analysis, edited by John Pine. Washington, D.C.: Taylor Francis.  Forthcoming.

Smith, Gavin.  2008b.  Disaster Resilient Communities: A New Hazards Risk Management Framework.  Chapter 10.  pp.????In Hazards Analysis, edited by John Pine. Washington, D.C.: Taylor Francis.  Forthcoming.

Smith, Gavin.  2008.  A Review of the Disaster Recovery Assistance Framework: Planning for Recovery.  Jessica A. Hubbard, ed.  In Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations; Papers from the 2007 FEMA Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Conference.   Fairfax, Virginia: Public Entity Risk Institute.