Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster – Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Birch

Rebuilding Urban Places After DisasterLessons from Hurricane Katrina\nAuthor(s): Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812219807, 978-0812219807\nSynopsis\nDisasters-natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks-are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require strategic responses from different levels of government in partnership with the private sector and in accordance with the public will.\n Disasters have a disproportionate effect on urban places. Dense by definition, cities and their environs suffer great damage to their complex, interdependent social, environmental, and economic systems. Social and medical services collapse. Long-standing problems in education.