dr laurie johnson, pacific earthquake engineering research centre, usa

LAURIE JOHNSON CONSULTINGUrban Planning ● Risk Management ● Disaster Recovery

Laurie Johnson PhD AICP Consulting | Research

The trajectory of post disaster recovery and regeneration: Learning from other cities

San Francisco, 1906(Photo: Private collection, foundsf.org)

Seismics and the City 18 March 2016


(Source: Haas, Kates, and Bowden, 1977, Reconstruction Following Disaster)

Regeneration


San Francisco Civic Center (1915)

(California Digital Newspaper Collection) (San Francisco History Center, S.F. Public Library (R.J. Waters & Co.) )


San Francisco Civic Center, 2010 (Photo: virgoinservice.com)


Embarcadero Freeway and Ferry Building circa 1960 (Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/features/2010/unbuilt_highways/san_francisco_the_embarcadero_freeway.html)

Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront after the 1989 Earthquake

(L Johnson 2010)


San Antonio, Texas: Riverwalk and Convention Center

(L. Johnson July 2015)


Riverwalk

Convention Center

• 31 million visitors annually• $348 million contributed in taxes

and fees to local governments• $2.49 billion annual payroll• 122,500 local jobs (1 out of 8

workers)• 66% growth from 2003 to 2013

(Source: Butler and Stefl, Trinity University, 2013)


(FEMA/Brenda Riskey/UND)

Grand Forks, North Dakota:Greenway and Downtown


(Geosynthetics, 2009)

The Greenway• 2,200 acres (900 hectares)• Parks and a campground• 2 golf courses and 3 disc

golf courses• Fishing sites• Over 20 miles (32 km) of

multi-purpose trails• Federal, state and local

dollars including post-flood funds for the major construction; operations and maintenance funded through user fees and a nominal monthly fee assessed to all residents


Innovation

(EQC)

(L. Johnson, Sept 2015)

(L. Johnson, Sept 2015)


Kobe, Japan – 20 years after the M6.9 earthquake (1995)

(L. Johnson 2014)


Inform Consult Involve Collaborate Empower

Public Participation goal

To provide the public with balanced and objective information.

To obtain public feedback on analysis, alternatives, and/or decisions.

To work directly with the public throughout the process.

To partner with the public in each aspect of the decision

To place final decision-making in the hands of the public.

Promise to the public

We will keep you informed

We will keep you informed, listen to and acknowledge concerns and aspirations and provide feedback on how public input influenced decisions

We will work with you to ensure that your concerns and aspiration are directly reflected in the alternatives developed and provide feedback on how public input influenced the decision.

We will look to you for advice and innovation in formulating solutions and incorporate your advice and recommendations into the decisions to the maximum extent possible.

We will implement what you decide.

Example techniques

•Fact sheets•Web sites•Open houses

•Public comment•Focus groups•Surveys•Public meetings

•Workshops •Deliberative planning

•Citizen advisory committees•Consensus-building•Participatory decision-making

•Citizen juries•Ballots•Delegated decision

Restoratiom/Rebuild/Replace RedevelopmentAccelerate decision-making Empower stakeholders to “tip in”

Source: IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation, 2007

Collaboration


Over 100 years of civic policy leadership1957: BART1964: Bay Conservation and Development Commission1972: Golden Gate National Recreation Area1973: Transit-first policy1985: Downtown Plan1996: New City Charter1997: First Business Improvement District1999: Muni reform2000: Better Neighborhoods plans2005: Rincon Hill, Transbay plans2008: High Speed Rail Bond2013: San Francisco mandatory “soft-story” housing seismic retrofit program

(www.spur.org)


The trajectory of post disaster recovery: Manage time relative to the scale of transformation, innovate as an insurance policy for regeneration, and use collaboration to fuel recovery.

(L. Johnson September 2015)Thank you!Email: [email protected]

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