Learning from Disaster: Building City Resilience through Cultural Heritage in New Orleans
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
Dec 2020
Subject
Urban Infrastructure;
Sustainable Development;
Climate Change;
Urban Sustainability;
Disaster Risk Management;
Urban Planning;
Urban Revitalization;
Cultural Heritage;
Heritage Conservation;
Natural Disaster;
Hurricane;
Urban Resilience
JEL code
Q01 - Sustainable Development;
Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming;
Q58 - Government Policy;
Z18 - Public Policy;
R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes;
H84 - Disaster Aid;
Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology
Country
United States
Category
Magazines, Journals and Newsletters
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the various resilience planning frameworks and explore their connections to cultural heritage and practices with especial reference to the case of New Orleans. The story of New Orleans as a case study allows to learn lessons throughout its culturally significant history in the face of major threats, including natural disasters, infrastructure failures, and socio-economic inequity and instability. The application of urban resilience framework linked to examples of cultural heritage protection and development in the New Orleans Context opens the discussion towards the concept of Resilient Heritage and its importance for several historic cities of LAC.
