Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster : : Lessons from Hurricane Katrina / / ed. by Susan M. Wachter, Eugenie L. Birch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Elijah,; Barnett, Jonathan,; Beckman, John,; Birch, Eugenie L.,; Burby, Raymond J.,; Cochrane, Steven,; Daniels, Ronald J.,; Daniels, Thomas L.,; Faga, Barbara,; Foster, Kenneth R.,; Gelles, Richard J.,; Giegengack, Robert,; Gutmann, Amy,; Hack, Gary,; Jones, Yvette M.,; Ksiazkiewicz, Fillip,; Lang, Robert E.,; Leahy, P. Patrick,; Lefton, Lester A.,; Lubell, Jeffrey,; Mason, Randall,; Mathur, Anuradha,; Nelson, Arthur C.,; Sanchez, Thomas W.,; Sipes, James,; Sorlien, Sandy,; Speed, Leland R.,; Spitzer, Nick,; Steinberg, Harris,; Steiner, Frederick,; Sweet, Ryan,; Upton, Dell,; Vale, Lawrence J.,; Wachter, Susan M.,; Weinberger, Rachel,; Yaro, Robert,; Zandi, Mark,; da Cunha, Dilip,
• HerausgeberIn: Birch, Eugenie L.,; Wachter, Susan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 8 color, 60 b/w illus.

Disasters-natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks-are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require strategic responses from different levels of government in partnership with the private sector and in accordance with the public will.Disasters have a disproportionate effect on urban places. Dense by definition, cities and their environs suffer great damage to their complex, interdependent social, environmental, and economic systems. Social and medical services collapse. Long-standing problems in educational access and quality become especially acute. Local economies cease to function. Cultural resources disappear. The plight of New Orleans and several smaller Gulf Coast cities exemplifies this phenomenon. This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: making cities less vulnerable to disaster, reestablishing economic viability, responding to the permanent needs of the displaced, and recreating a sense of place. Success in these areas requires that priorities be set cooperatively, and this goal poses significant challenges for rebuilding efforts in a democratic, market-based society. Who sets priorities and how? Can participatory decision-making be organized under conditions requiring focused, strategic choices? How do issues of race and class intersect with these priorities? Should the purpose of rebuilding be restoration or reformation? Contributors address these and other questions related to environmental conditions, economic imperatives, social welfare concerns, and issues of planning and design in light of the lessons to be drawn from Hurricane Katrina.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface: ''The Wound'' -- Introduction: Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster -- Part I. Making Places Less Vulnerable -- CHAPTER 1. Physical Constraints on Reconstructing New Orleans -- CHAPTER 2. Negotiating a Fluid Terrain -- CHAPTER 3. The Problems of Containment and the Promise of Planning -- CHAPTER 4. Mapping for Sustainable Resilience -- CHAPTER 5. Natural Hazards Science-A Matter of Public Safety -- Part II. Returning Urban Places to Economic Viability -- CHAPTER 6. Measuring Katrina's Impact on the Gulf Megapolitan Area -- CHAPTER 7. Restarting the Economy -- CHAPTER 8. Rebuilding Transportation -- CHAPTER 9. Learning from Past Disasters -- CHAPTER 10. Restoring Urban Viability -- CHAPTER 11. Housing Displaced Families -- CHAPTER 12. Assessing the University's Role -- Part III. Responding to the Needs of the Displaced: Issues of Class, Race, and Recovery -- CHAPTER 13. Inadequate Reponses, Limited Expectations -- Chapter 14. Educational Equity in Post-Disaster New Orleans -- CHAPTER 15. The Lost and Forgotten -- CHAPTER 16. Temporary Housing Blues -- CHAPTER 17. Lessons from Sri Lanka -- Part IV. Recreating a Sense of Place -- CHAPTER 18. Promoting Cultural Preservation -- CHAPTER 19. Understanding New Orleans's Architectural Ecology -- CHAPTER 20. Reconstructing New Orleans: A Progress Report -- CHAPTER 21. Rebuilding the ''Land of Dreams'' with Music -- CHAPTER 22. Walking to Wal-Mart: Planning for Mississippi and Beyond -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors