Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster : Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface ''The Wound'' -- Introduction: Rebuilding Urban Places after Disaster -- I: Making Places Less Vulnerable -- 1: Physical Constraints on Reconstructing New Orleans -- 2: Negotiating a Fluid Terrain -- 3: The Problems of Containment and the Promise of Planning -- 4: Mapping for Sustainable Resilience -- 5: Natural Hazards Science-A Matter of Public Safety -- II: Returning Urban Places to Economic Viability -- 6: Measuring Katrina's Impact on the Gulf Megapolitan Area -- 7: Restarting the Economy -- 8: Rebuilding Transportation -- 9: Learning from Past Disasters -- 10: Restoring Urban Viability -- 11: Housing Displaced Families -- 12: Assessing the University's Role -- III: Responding to the Needs of the Displaced: Issues of Class, Race, and Recovery -- 13: Inadequate Responses, Limited Expectations -- 14: Educational Equity in Post-Disaster New Orleans -- 15: The Lost and Forgotten -- 16: Temporary Housing Blues -- 17: Lessons from Sri Lanka -- IV: Recreating a Sense of Place -- 18: Promoting Cultural Preservation -- 19: Understanding New Orleans's Architectural Ecology -- 20: Reconstructing New Orleans: A Progress Report -- 21: Rebuilding the ''Land of Dreams'' with Music -- 22: Walking to Wal-Mart: Planning for Mississippi and Beyond -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Plates Follow Page 148.

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.

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