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Planning, Population Loss and Equity in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

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  • Renia Ehrenfeucht
  • Marla Nelson

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Shrinking, slow-growth and fast-growth cities have different opportunities and constraints. This paper uses New Orleans following the severe flood damage from the 2005 hurricanes as a case study to investigate the challenges to developing equitable and effective plans in a city with significant population loss. By addressing four elements that are necessary for effective planning in depopulated areas—strategies for targeted investment and consolidation; alternatives for underused areas; mechanisms to reintegrate abandoned parcels; and plans for infrastructure and service provision—we argue that the lack of effective tools was a pivotal impediment to effective planning.

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  • Renia Ehrenfeucht & Marla Nelson, 2011. "Planning, Population Loss and Equity in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2), pages 129-146.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:26:y:2011:i:2:p:129-146
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2011.560457
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    1. Florian Bartholomae & Chang Woon Nam & Alina Schoenberg, 2017. "Urban shrinkage and resurgence in Germany," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(12), pages 2701-2718, September.
    2. Aaron Malone, 2019. "(Im)mobile and (Un)successful? A policy mobilities approach to New Orleans’s residential security taxing districts," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 37(1), pages 102-118, February.
    3. Fallon S. Aidoo, 2021. "Architectures of mis/managed retreat: Black land loss to green housing gains," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 11(3), pages 451-464, September.
    4. Jason Hackworth, 2015. "Rightsizing as Spatial Austerity in the American Rust Belt," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 47(4), pages 766-782, April.
    5. Renia Ehrenfeucht & Marla Nelson, 2018. "Moving to a shrinking city? Some suggestive observations on why college-educated professionals came to New Orleans and why they stayed," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(12), pages 2762-2779, September.
    6. Renia Ehrenfeucht & Marla Nelson, 2013. "Young Professionals as Ambivalent Change Agents in New Orleans after the 2005 Hurricanes," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(4), pages 825-841, March.

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