Title & Author:

What is a city? : rethinking the urban after Hurricane Katrina / edited by Phil Steinberg & Rob Shields.

Publication:

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, ©2008.

Description:

viii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.
What is a city? : Katrina's answer / Phil Steinberg -- New Orleans' culture of resistance / Jordan Flaherty -- On flexible urbanism / Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley -- Delta city / Rob Shields -- Mobility and the regional context of urban disaster / Hugh Bartling -- Uneven mobilities and urban theory : the power of fast and slow / Matthew Tiessen -- Remembering the forgetting of New Orleans / Daina Cheyenne Harvey -- Repair and the scaffold of memory / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Repositioning the theorist in the Lower Ninth Ward / C. Tabor Fisher -- Understanding New Orleans : Creole urbanism / Jacob A. Wagner -- On street life and urban disasters : lessons from a "third world" city / Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria.

Summary:

The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography and planning. From the disciplines of anthropology, architecture, geography, philosophy, planning, public policy studies, and sociology, as well as community organizing, the contributors include planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. They unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just toward New Orleans, but toward all cities.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780820329642 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0820329649 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780820330945 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0820330949 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Urban geography United States.
City planning Louisiana New Orleans.
Urban geography Louisiana New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects.
Disasters Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans.
Hurricanes Social aspects Louisiana New Orleans.
Géographie urbaine États-Unis.
Géographie urbaine Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Ouragan Katrina, 2005 Aspect social.
Catastrophes Aspect social Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Ouragans Aspect social Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
City planning
Disasters Social aspects
Hurricanes Social aspects
Social aspects
Urban geography
Katrina
Stadtplanung
Stadtsoziologie
Stadtentwicklung
Städtebau
Katrina <Hurrikan>
Louisiana New Orleans
United States
New Orleans, La.
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Steinberg, Philip E.
Shields, Rob, 1961-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258959
Call No.: BIB 189807
Status: Available