# City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans

Students from the class pose in front of the Mid-City Bowling Lanes during their spring break trip to New Orleans. (Image courtesy of Joy Alcock. Used with permission.)

### Instructor(s)

Cherie Miot Abbanat

### MIT Course Number

11.027

### As Taught In

Spring 2011

### Level

Undergraduate

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Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

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## Course Description

City to City, as a class, will jump into the complexity of planning in New Orleans, a post-disaster city. City-to-City will ask how a post-disaster city grapple with its ideas of identity, what it is, who it represents, and how it projects its sense of self to residences, businesses, tourists, and to the outside world. In considering its people, how do city planners think about who lives where and why? At the same time, how can city planners celebrate a city's history and its culture and how can these elements be woven into reconstruction? Students will travel from Cambridge to New Orleans over Spring Break to meet and consult with their alumni clients, and continue to work on projects.

## Other Versions

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- 11.027 Global Cityscope - Disaster Planning and Post-Disaster Rebuilding and Recovery (Spring 2017)
- 11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities (Spring 2006)

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Cherie Miot Abbanat. 11.027 City to City: Comparing, Researching and Writing about Cities: New Orleans. Spring 2011. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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