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Author Monographic
Gotham, Kevin Fox; Miriam Greenberg
Author Combination
Gotham, Kevin Fox; Miriam Greenberg
Title Monographic
CRISIS CITIES: DISASTER AND REDEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS
Title Combination
CRISIS CITIES: DISASTER AND REDEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher Name
Oxford University Press
Date of Publication
2014
Availability
FF: Society and Social Sciences > Urban communities
ISBN
978-0-19-975221-8
Notes
LCCN: 2013035033 Contents: Comparing the Imcomparable: Toward a Theory of Crisis Cities "Tighten Your Belts and Bite the Bullet": The Legacy of Urban Crisis in New York City and New Orleans Constructing the Tabula Rasa: Framing and the Political Construction of Crisis Crisis as Opportunity: Tracing the Contentious Spatial Politics of Redevelopment Landscapes of Risk and Resilience: From Lower Manhattan to the Lower Ninth Ward Rebranding the "Big Apple" and the "Big Easy": Representations of Crisis and Crises of Representation Conclusion: Lessons in the Wake of Crisis
Abstract
This book blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, the book contends that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment that is increasingly influential in our current, crisis-prone urban age. This approach, the book terms crisis-driven urbanization, emphasizes the privatization of disaster aid, devolution of recovery responsibility to the local state, and use of corporate tax incentives and grants to spur revitalization. Rather than target the populations and ecosystems most heavily impacted by the disasters, deregulated aid dollars subsidize luxury development and urban rebranding campaigns that accelerate gentrification and displacement and advance urban agendas long sought by growth coalitions, By exposing both the pre- and post-history of the two disasters, the book shows how long-neglected landscapes of risk and vulnerability combine with starkly inequitable redevelopment to turned sudden disaster into long-term crises. Such uneven and contradictory redevelopment only exacerbates risk of future crisisand is not inevitable.
Call Number
150.G6.C7
Keywords
Hurricanes-Case Studies ;
Disaster Recovery ;
Reconstruction ;
