Whats is a city? : rethinking the urban after the hurricane Katrina. / txt
Edited by Phil Steinberg & Rob Shields.
- viii, 233p. ill. ; maps ; 23cm. book
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-222) and index.
CONTENTS : Acknowledgements vii -- Part One: Introductions 1. What Is a City? Katrina’ s Answer Phil Steinberg 3 -- 2. New Orleans’ Culture of Resistance Jordan Flaherty 30 -- Part Two: Materialities -- Introduction 57 -- With an essay by Fernando Lara: “Explicit Ruins: Architecture Is More Visible When It Fails” -- 3. On Flexible Urbanism 63 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley -- 4. Delta City Rob Shields 78 -- Part Three: Mobilities -- Introduction 95 -- 5. Mobility and the Regional Context of Urbanism Disaster Hugh Bartling 99 -- 6. Uneven Mobilities and Urban Theory: The Power of Fast and Slow Matthew Tiessen 112 -- Part Four: Memories -- Introduction 125 -- 7. Remembering the Forgetting of New Orleans Daina Cheyenne Harvey 129 -- 8. Repair and the Scaffold of Memory Elizabeth V. Spelman 40 -- Part Five: Divisions and Connections -- Introduction 155 -- 9. Repositioning the Theorist in the Lower Ninth ward C. Tabor Fisher 159 -- 10. Understanding New Orleans: Creole Urbanism Jacob A. Wagner 172 -- 11. On Street Life and Urban Disasters: Lessons from a “Third World” City Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria 186 -- References 203 -- Contributors 223 -- Index 225 --
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