Title & Author:

New Orleans under reconstruction : the crisis of planning / edited by Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, and Anthony Fontenot.

Publication:

New York : Verso Books [2014]
copyright 2014

Description:

xxix, 544 pages : Ill. (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Foreword : Sittin' on the front porch with a shotgun / Mike Davis -- Introduction / Carol McMichael Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot -- Part I. Introductory perspectives : What should New Orleans do? / Denise Scott Brown -- Disaster apartheid: a world of green zones and red zones / Naomi Klein -- Beloved community / Rebecca Solnit -- New Orleans, nature, and the apocalyptic trope / Amy Murphy -- Part II. Planning perspectives : The once and future New Orleans of planners Milton Medary and Harland Bartholomew, 1920-1960 / Carol McMichael Reese -- New Orleans under reconstruction: a crisis in planning and human security / M. Christine Boyer -- Ethical dilemmas in post-Katrina New Orleans planning / Melissa Harris-Perry and William M Harris Sr. -- Lessons learned: obstacles to implementing a resilient vision for New Orleans / Wm. Raymond Manning -- The plan for the twenty-first century: New Orleans 2030 / David Dixon -- Citizen advocacy and planning policy / Jeanne P. Nathan -- Beneath the underdog: urban design and the social contract / David Lee -- Elbows together, hearts apart: institutional reform, economic opportunity, and social trust in post-Katrina New Orleans / Michael A. Cowan -- Hurricanes, civil unrest, and the restoration of the American city: lessons from Newark for a new planning response / Toni L. Griffin -- Part III. Reconstructing domicile, housing (singly considered) : Restoring the real New Orleans, retaining the culture / Andrés Duany -- Recovery chaos: urban neighborhood redevelopment after disaster / Bradford Powers -- Still searching for higher ground / Byron Mouton -- Projects : Single-family housing : Tarpon House / University of Arizona ; L9 Pil-Aft: suburban germination / Columbia University ; Float House / Morphosis ; Breeze House / Auburn University ; ecoMOD2: preHAB / University of Virginia ; Make It Right houses / MVRDV ; Say yoo-hoo to the bungalette / Columbia University -- Part IV. Reconstructing community, housing (multiply considered) : Plum Orchard, mon amour / Deborah Gans -- Landlocked / Denise Hoffman Brandt -- Reposition in place, no big plans: the adjudicated properties project for the Lower Ninth Ward and New Orleans East / James Dart -- Green.O.LA: a model block for Holy Cross / Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen -- Projects : Multi-unit housing : Eco-shells / Soft Shoe Studio ; Local green, live work play / CP+D Workshop ; Ecological crossings in New Orleans / Columbia University ; Femanator: can a trailer park evolve? / m2d ; Resilient topographies: ascending gardens / University of Pennsylvania ; Density and the architecture of exchange / Tulane University -- Part V. Reconstructing the public sphere : Reinventing the crescent / R. Allen Eskew -- Projects : Public building : The Hill: Martin Luther King School / MVRDV ; Schools within school prototype for public schools: to learn, must New Orleans confront its biggest fear? / Columbia University ; New Orleans Neighborhood Center / Harvard University ; Classroom prototype for public schools: the urban salvaging system / Columbia University ; MoFAD, Museum of Food and Drink / Clemson University ; National Jazz Center and Park / Morphosis ; The palpability of literature and architecture: a library in New Orleans / California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo ; Cultural complex prototype for public schools: who gets to call school home? / Columbia University -- Part VI. Reconstruction cultural landscapes : Architectural activism through multiple scales, venues, programs, and collaborations / Derek James Hoeferlin -- Landscape agency in urban revitalization / Elisabeth Mossop -- Pontchartrain Park + Gentilly Woods landscape manual / Jane Wolff and Carol McMichael Reese -- Projects : Cultural landscapes : Precious memories floating on a mystic horizon / Knoops ; Sites of memory / Clemson University ; Big + Fix / Hargreaves Associates / Light of hope / University of Michigan ; Ujamaa Square: movable, elevated pathways / Wentworth Institute of Technology ; reGrow: the Lafitte Corridor / Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Streams: city park / West8 -- Part VII. Urban analysis : Haunted housing: eco-vanguardism and eviction in New Orleans / Yates McKee -- Justice reinvestment New Orleans / Laura Kurgan -- The new Algiers project / Terreform -- Projects : Urban analysis : The Brewery Pod / City College of New York ; Claiborne Stitch / City College of New York ; We are all players in the LOLA game / Washington University, St. Louis ; Environments of design, New Orleans now: public housing / Columbia University ; Inter-living system / University of Kansas ; Mega medical city / Alec Ng -- Sea level: balancing New Orleans / University of Kansas -- Part VIII. Living with water: flood mitigation and infrastructure : Planning at multiple scales, from the Gulf States region to New Orleans neighborhoods / Robert Tannen -- Beyond the line / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip de Cunha -- Ground Zero / J. David Waggonner III -- Mapping the aftermath and charting new strategies / Anthony Fontenot with Jakob Rosenzwieg -- Projects : Flood mitigation and infrastructure : The big leak ? University of Virginia ; INhabiting the fluid terrain: inhabitable revetments / University of Pennsylvania ; Inhabiting the fluid terrain: constructing permeable landscapes / University of Pennsylvania ; Liquid urbanism: new hydraulic pocket ground / Pratt institute ; NOLA evacuation barges / University of Michigan ; Upside-down: the Ninth Islands / University of Michigan ; Resilient topographies: inhabitable foundations / University of Pennsylvania -- Timeline / Alison N. Popper.

Summary:

When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster exposed the hideous inequality of the city. In response to the disaster numerous plans, designs and projects were proposed. This bold, challenging a nd informed book gathers together the variety of responses from politicians, writers, architects and planners and searches for the answers of one of the most important issues of our age: How can we plan for the future, creating a more robust and equal place?

Resources:
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Publisher's description

ISBN:

1781682720
1781682739
9781781682722
9781781682739

Subject:

Architecture Louisiana New Orleans.
City planning Louisiana New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects.
Urban policy Louisiana New Orleans.
Urban renewal Louisiana New Orleans.
Architecture Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 Aspect social.
Politique urbaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Rénovation urbaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Architecture.
Buildings.
City planning.
Social aspects.
Urban policy.
Urban renewal.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
New Orleans (La.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Louisiana New Orleans.

Added entries:

Fontenot, Anthony.
Reese, Carol McMichael.
Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.
Reese, Carol McMichael editor.
Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020, editor.
Fontenot, Anthony editor.
Davies, Mike writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287587
Call No.: BIB 228726
Status: Available