TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinberg,Philip E.Shields,Rob,1961-
ED  - Phil Steinberg, ed.
ED  - Rob Shields.
TI  - Whats is a city?: rethinking the urban after the hurricane Katrina. 
SN  - 9780820330945
AV  - HT167 W43 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Athens, London
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - HurricanesLouisiana
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Hurricane
KW  - Katrina, 2005
KW  - Urban geography
KW  - Hurricanes
N1  - 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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