An economic development architecture for New Orleans
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, followed by multiple levee failures, devastated New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast, inflicting major damage to commercial property, infrastructure, and housing. The failure of the levees and the subsequent flooding of New Orleans caused enormous dam...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA
RAND
2008, 2008
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Series: | Technical report
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Review of economic development efforts
- Economic development in New Orleans
- Summary of key findings and recommendations
- Appendix A. Development agencies researched
- Appendix B. Alphabetical list of interviewees
- Introduction. Methods. Organization of report
- Review of economic development efforts. Description of comparison cities. Characteristics of economic development programs. Design component. Organizational phase. Implementation phase. Summary
- Economic development in New Orleans. Design component. Vision statement. Assessment of economic infrastructure. Internal improvements. Choice of development strategy. Organizational component. New Orleans' prior development experience. The organizational ecology of economic development. Implications. Implementation component. Geographic focus. Setting priorities. Setting goals, schedules, and metrics for assessing progress
- Summary of key findings and recommendations. Overall architecture. Strategy phase. Organizational phase. Implementation phase. Development agencies researched. Alphabetical list of interviewees
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-49)