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

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• 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 stra...

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