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Hurricane Katrina exposed
tremendous rifts over class, race and community, not just in
New Orleans
but throughout the United States and around the world. It also shook
the very foundation of planning and governance, whose failures were
broadcast in high definition to the global community. Yet the effort
to dig out and rebuild has been marked by tremendous innovation and
will on the part of local communities, despite
continued abandonment at the federal level.
The
2007 Planners Network
Conference will
confront issues of race, class, injustice and the failures of
planning, while seeking to learn from the work of community-based
organizations, dedicated planners and
local residents.
Planners Network is an
association of professionals, activists, academics, and students
involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning
in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our
political and economic systems. The
planning department at the
University of New Orleans
is the only accredited planning program in Louisiana, Mississippi or
Arkansas, and has been extremely active in community-based planning
efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes. |
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