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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Urban renewal -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
City planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
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Rebuilding urban pla...
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Rebuilding urban places after disaster : lessons from Hurricane Katrina / edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
Subjects
Urban renewal -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
City planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions.
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
0812219805 (pbk.)
9780812219807 (pbk.)
Series:
City in the twenty-first century book series.
Description:
xii, 375 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction : Rebuilding urban places after disaster / Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter -- [pt]. 1. making places less vulnerable -- 1. Physical constraints on reconstructing New Orleans / Robert Giegengack and Kenneth R. Foster -- 2. Negotiating a fluid terrain / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha -- 3. Problems of containment and the promise of planning / Raymond J. Burby, Arthur C. Nelson, and Thomas W. Sanchez -- 4. Mapping for sustainable resilience / Frederick Steiner, Barbara Faga, James Sipes, and Robert Yaro -- 5. Natural hazards science-- a matter of public safety / P. Patrick Leahy -- [pt]. 2. Returning urban places to economic viability -- 6. Measuring Katrina's impact on the Gulf Megapolitan Area / Robert E. Lang -- 7. Restarting the economy / Mark Zandi, Steven Cochrane, Fillip Ksiazkiewicz, and Ryan Sweet -- 8. Rebuilding transportation / Rachel Weinberger.
9. Learning from past disasters / Eugenie L. Birch -- 10. Restoring urban viability / Lawrence J. Vale -- 11. Housing displaced families / Jeffrey Lubell -- 12. Assessing the university's role / Lester A. Lefton and Yvette M. Jones -- [pt]. 3. Responding to the needs of the displaced : issues of class, race, and recovery -- 13. Inadequate responses, limited expectations / Elijah Anderson -- 14. Educational equity in post-disaster New Orleans / Vivian L. Gadsden -- 15. The lost and forgotten / Richard J. Gelles -- 16. Temporary housing blues / Gary Hack -- 17. Lessons from Sri Lanka / Thomas L. Daniels and Harris Steinberg -- [pt]. 4. Recreating a sense of place -- 18. Promoting cultural preservation / Randall Mason -- 19. Understanding New Orleans's architectural ecology / Dell Upton -- 20. Reconstructing New Orleans : a progress report / Jonathan Barnett and John Beckman -- 21. Rebuilding the "land of dreams" with music / Nick Spitzer -- 22. Walking to Wal-Mart : planning for Mississippi and beyond / Sandy Sorlien and Leland R. Speed -- Afterword / Ronald J. Daniels -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors.
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Although the majority of this book makes references to New Orleans after Katrina. It also addresses similar problems elsewhere on the Gulf Coast, lessons from Sri Lanka after the tsunami, and previous disasters such as the 1927 flood. It also points out these solutions could also be used to fight inner city decay. It is an idea book for urban rebirth.
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