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Disaster Recovery: Reflections on Neighborhood Resilience

2022-CxD03
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In 2020, the cumulative costs of disaster events in the US reached $95 billion - more than double the previous year. In 2021, the costs from disasters reached $145 billion. In fact, between 2012-2021 it was estimated that 142 separate billion-dollar disaster events had cost the nation over $1 trillion. This National Preparedness Month, join in conversation with two communities who have experienced major tornado disasters and are now over a decade past the events, allowing for a long-term perspective on how we think about disaster recovery, resilience and the future of our communities in an era of climate change vulnerability.

Hosted by AIA Center for Communities by Design.

Course expires 09/1/2025

Learning Objectives

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Explore common challenges that are unique to post-disaster design contexts and their key constraints and pressures

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Explain key community engagement principles to disaster recovery mobilization efforts to build momentum

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Apply lessons learned from long-term perspectives on disaster recovery and their potential application to future disaster events and recovery scenarios

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Identify tools and strategies for centering equity in community preparedness and disaster recovery

To learn more about the communities in this session, visit the Communities By Design YouTube channel:

This session was recorded live on September 13, 2022.

Instructors
Hunter Gee
FAIA

For nearly 30 years, Hunter Gee has committed his career to building great communities.  In 2016, Hunter was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects for his achievements in urban design and master planning mixed-use projects, Traditional Neighborhood Developments, urban revitalization and mixed-income communities.

Hunter’s laboratory for building great cities is his home, Nashville, Tennessee, where he has been involved in revitalization efforts throughout the city.  Following a devastating tornado in 1998, Hunter oversaw the AIA’s East Nashville R/UDAT (Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team) which set the stage for the revitalization of one of Nashville’s most overlooked urban neighborhoods.  Hunter led the master-planning efforts for The Gulch, the first LEED ND Certified project in the South and his team recently completed the master plan to transform Chattanooga’s largest public housing community into a mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhood.  

Hunter served as the Chairman for Nashville’s Urban Land Institute, as President of the Board for the Nashville Civic Design Center, and as a Metro Planning and Historic Zoning Commissioner.  Hunter graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design.

Cheryl Morgan
FAIA

Cheryl is a licensed architect and Emerita Professor of Architecture who was the Director of Auburn University’s Urban Studio in Birmingham, Alabama. Under Cheryl’s leadership, the Urban Studio’s Small-Town Design Initiative Program worked with over 75 small towns and neighborhoods in Alabama.  

Morgan practiced architecture and urban design in the San Francisco Bay Area before coming to Auburn in 1992. Morgan’s professional practice now focuses on urban design, community revitalization and graphic design. She is also an experienced facilitator.

In 2012 she received one of Auburn University’s highest awards for Achievement in Outreach and in 2017 the Alabama State Council on the Arts named Cheryl one of the recipients of their bi-annual Governor’s Award. In 2018 she gave a TEDx talk at TEDx Birmingham titled “Place Matters.” 

She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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