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@ Brookings Podcast: The Economic Impact of the Oil Spill
Brookings expert Amy Liu has been tracking the recovery of the Gulf Coast ever since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. In this week’s @Brookings podcast, she discusses the enormous economic impact of...
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New Orleans Five Years After: A Transformation Unfolding
Five years since Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans and its region stand out as a bold experiment in rebirth and reinvention. This is pretty remarkable given the fact that this fifth...
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Greater New Orleans at Five: A Case Study of Regional Resilience
During a Senate subcommittee hearing, Amy Liu discussed greater New Orleans' progress over the past five years. She outlined how federal and state leaders can use the recent opportunities presented by...
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The State of New Orleans Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
In five years, New Orleans has weathered America’s costliest natural disaster, its worst recession since the 1930s and its largest oil spill. Believe it or not, some good news has come out of all...
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New Orleans as the Model City for the 21st Century: New Concepts of Urban...
During an event in New Orleans, Amy Liu explained how the city could emerge as a model for the 21st century. She noted that the metropolitan area is poised to restore prosperity, improve systems to...
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Resilience and Opportunity : Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina...
Brookings Institution Press 2011 220pp. Video Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis...
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The New Orleans Index
In the six years following Hurricane Katrina — a tragedy made more complex by the Great Recession and the Gulf oil spill — the New Orleans metro has continued on a trajectory of recovery that suggests...
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Rebirth on the Bayou - Lessons from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina is the costliest disaster in U.S. history and among the three costliest in the world ever. And as Hurricane Irene reminds us, the potential for a recurrence is not hard to imagine....
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Can Natural Disasters Help Stimulate the Economy?
Immediately following a disaster, there is a loss of supply in the affected area. After hurricanes, oil spills, or floods, the people, land, buildings, and other resources can no longer supply the...
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Rebuilding a City: The Dos and Don’ts in Post-Disaster Urban Recovery
Event Information October 6, 2011 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDTFalk Auditorium The Brookings Institution 1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC Register for the Event Population growth, urbanization and...
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Housing and Disasters: Thoughts on Hurricane Katrina and Haiti
Recently I spent a day at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), reviewing the results of a draft study on a housing program for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Although...
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Waiting on Isaac, Reflecting on Katrina
Editor's Note: This opinion piece was later published in the Ottawa Citizen. Usually, no one pulls out the stops for seventh anniversaries. Whether we are celebrating accomplishments or remembering...
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Hurricane Isaac and the Republican National Convention
I came to New Orleans this week for a political science conference, but arrived just in time for Hurricane Isaac. Seeing the hurricane lead-up and arrival from a downtown hotel was interesting to...
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The Federal Government, States, and Cities — The All of the Above...
Hurricane Sandy struck just before Election Day. The political machine couldn't help itself. Governor Christie "has gone soft" on President Obama. Candidate Mitt Romney wants disaster assistance to...
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Amy Liu extols New Orleans’ resilience 10 years after Hurricane Katrina
“New Orleans is still in the middle of a major urban experiment,” says Senior Fellow Amy Liu in this podcast, the 50th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria. “It’s an urban experiment that is not so much...
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Opportunity clusters: Identifying pathways to good jobs in metro New Orleans
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the conversation in metro New Orleans is less about post-disaster recovery and more about the challenge that many communities face today: the need to shape an...
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Post-Katrina New Orleans is bouncing back, but not for the better
As President Obama and others commemorate lives lost and progress made in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina, competing narratives about the city’s recovery and its beneficiaries will emerge. Yet,...
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Concentrated poverty in New Orleans 10 years after Katrina
The death and massive displacement that Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures caused in New Orleans 10 years ago caused many Americans at the time to ask: How could this happen? How could so...
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‘Good Jobs’ can drive growth and inclusion in metro New Orleans
With the 10th anniversary of Katrina behind them, leaders in metro New Orleans have declared an end to the region’s period of recovery. Yet challenges remain. Recent job growth in metro New Orleans...
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