Urban Planning

New:

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, 2008, 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., Laurie A. Johnson, Kenneth C. Topping, Rebuilding communities following disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles, in Built Environment Vol.32(4): 354-374, 2006.

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., and Stephanie Chang, “Planning for Disaster Recovery: Emerging Research Needs and Challenges,”  Progress in Planning, forthcoming 2009.

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.