Recovering Inequality : : Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster / / Steve Kroll-Smith.
A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the elderly, and the medically infirm were...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Katrina Bookshelf
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD: CRISIS AND CAPITAL: THE DARK SIDE OF RECOVERY
- FROM WHENCE RECOVERY? A PRELUDE
- I AN INTRODUCTION
- 1 “THE EARTH DRAGON” AND “MISS KATRINA”
- 2 GEOGRAPHIES OF INEQUALITY A SKETCH OF TWO CITIES SPANNING A CENTURY
- II DERANGING AND REKINDLING
- 3 THE GREAT DERANGEMENTS
- 4 FASHIONING “THE LOOTER” REKINDLING RACIAL AND CLASS KINDS
- III REBOOTING INEQUALITY, THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
- 5 DISASTER RELIEF PARSING THE VERNACULARS OF WORTHINESS
- 6 SPATIAL ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION: TWO ATTEMPTS TO ROB THE MARGINAL
- 7 ONE CITY NECESSARY, ONE CITY EXPENDABLE
- BY WAY OF CLOSING
- NOTES
- INDEX