New Orleans’ resilience 10 years after Hurricane Katrina
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Jul 07, 2015
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“New Orleans is still in the middle of a major urban experiment,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast, the 50th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria. “It’s an urban experiment that is not so much just about responding to Katrina and the oil spill, but really is the great experiment of our time.” The central question within that experiment is, “regardless of any environmental or economic disaster—like the Great Recession, the loss of a manufacturing sector—how does an economic center, a population center, really continue to grow and adapt?” Liu is co-director of the at Brookings and has been an expert on the rebuilding efforts in greater New Orleans and southern Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf oil spill, and the recession.  -------------------------------------------------------------------- Also in this episode, Senior Fellow , director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, offers his regular "Wessel's Economic Update." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Show Notes: (2011) "" "" (book, 2011) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on , listen on , and send feedback email to .  

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