Coming Home to New Orleans

Neighborhood Rebuilding After Katrina

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ID20008624
AuthorsKarl F Seidman (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages408
Publication date2013-03-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueComing Home to New Orleans (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945511.001.0001
OpenAlexW4239333872
Open LibraryOL28778110M
ISBN9780199945511
LanguageEN
Citations received14

This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two introductory chapters address Katrina's impact and the planning and public-sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Three chapters present and analyze rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L'Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new civic capacity. Another chapter shows how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity and responses combined to create varied recovery trajectories across four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city. A concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring "complete neighborhoods" with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investment and policies to rebuild rental housing, deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and changes to federal disaster recovery policies

Affordable housing · Context (archaeology) · Disaster recovery · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Grassroots · Hurricane katrina · Natural disaster · Political science · Politics · Renting · Disaster Management and Resilience · Public Administration · 2005 · Citizen participation · City planning · Community development · Economic development · Neighborhood planning · Social aspects · united states · Urban renewal

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