My Storm : : Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina / / Edward J. Blakely.

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• VerfasserIn: Blakely, Edward J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cisneros, Henry G.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cisneros, Henry.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• 出版年: 2012
• 語言: English
• 叢編: The City in the Twenty-First Century
• 實物描述: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 8 illus.

Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointme...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I. Seeing the Problem
• 1. An Alarming View from Down Under
• 2. Getting to New Orleans
• 3. A Harbinger of Problems to Come
• 4. "Fix It!"
• Part II. Where to from Here?
• 5. Im agining a Future Out of Mud: A Recovery Plan
• 6. Inside the Mayor's "Cocoon"
• 7. Putting My Team on the Field: Recovery Administration
• 8. Politics and Money
• Part III Elements of the City
• 10. In Search of Civic Leadership
• 11. More Than Bricks and Sticks: Reviving Neighborhoods
• 12. The Race Cards of Recovery
• 13. A Medium off Mess age
• 14. Levees and FE MA: The Real Hazards for New Orleans
• Part IV Assessing the Recovery
• 15. Chance to Assess the Recovery
• 16. In the "Big Easy," Nothing Comes Easy, Not Even Leaving
• Notes
• Appendix. Memorandum of Understanding
• Index