[Sci-tech-public] Wednesday - MIT Symposium: How Can Communities, Cities & Regions Recover From Disaster?

[Kris Kipp]

>
>MIT-wide Symposia
>BIG questions after BIG Hurricanes
>Wednesday, October 5, 2005
>4:00 - 6:00 pm
>Kirsch Auditorium
>Ray and Maria Stata Center
>also Broadcast Live at:  http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/
>How Can Communities, Cities and Regions Recover From Disaster?
>
>Are Cities Resilient? Disaster Recovery, Past and Present
>Professor Lawrence J. Vale, Department Head, Urban Studies and Planning
>
>Hurricane Katrina:  What Would FDR Do?
>Professor Thomas A. Kochan, Sloan School of Management
>
>Do Poor Communities Have a Role in Rebuilding New Orleans?
>Professor J. Phillip Thompson, Urban Studies and Planning
>Moderated by Professor David A. Mindell, Science, Technology and Society, 
>and Engineering Systems
>
>Future Events in the Series
>How Can We Plan for Safe and Sustainable Regions?
>Tuesday, October 18, 2005
>4:00 pm, Kirsch Auditorium
>
>What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present
>and Future Risks Associated with Hurricanes?
>Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Meteorology
>Monday, October 31, 2005
>
>Please visit  http://web.mit.edu/katrina/ for a complete list of MIT 
>activities, benefits and resources helping with the Hurricane Katrina 
>recovery efforts.
>
>--
>Ted E. Johnson
>Associate Director of the Information Center and
>Director of Community Services
>
>Community Services Office
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Room E19-432
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
>
>Email: tej at mit.edu
>Phone: 617-253-4940
>FAX:   617-253-8006
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