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Learning from Disaster: New Orleans After Katrina
Date: 09 May 2006
Start Time: 6.00pm
End Time: 8.30pm
Location: RENEW Rooms, 82 Wood Street, Liverpool
Description:
After the floodwaters in New Orleans receded, universal urban challenges were exposed. Current post-recovery activity reflects the conflicts and choices facing every city today.
Join us for an evening with international urban critic Roberta Brandes Gratz to reflect on her work in the US and its implications for regeneration here in England`s Northwest.
Speakers:
Roberta is an award-winning journalist and urban critic, and author of The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way and Cities: Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. A former reporter for the New York Post, Roberta Brandes Gratz has also written for The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications.
Roberta has worked for The Rockefeller Foundation in Eastern Europe and has experience of urban issues in numerous countries. Roberta has visited Liverpool for several conferences and seminars and contributed to a Core Cities Conference in Sheffied, before which she made a fact-finding visit to each of the eight cities.
Categories: RENEW Rooms
Programme
6.00pm Arrival & Refreshments
7.00pm Welcome & Introduction
Beatrice Fraenkel (Chair, RENEW Northwest and Event Chair)
7.10pm Learning from Disaster: New Orleans After Katrina
Roberta Brandes Gratz
7.45pm Questions & Discussion
8.00pm Refrshments & Close
Lead Organisation: RENEW Northwest
Contact: For further information or to register your attendance at this event please contact Clare.Smith.RENEW@nwda.co.uk.
Cost: Please note there is no charge for attending this event, however, if a delegate registers for the event and then fails to attend without prior notification, RENEW Northwest reserves the right to charge an administration fee of £50.
Event Topics: Design & Built Environment, Neighbourhood Regeneration/Management, Regeneration & Sustainable Communities