04627nam 2200829 a 450 991095520150332120251116182833.0978128389750112838975049780812207064081220706810.9783/9780812207064(CKB)3240000000064761(EBL)3441833(SSID)ssj0000704153(PQKBManifestationID)11397189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704153(PQKBWorkID)10691621(PQKB)11585789(OCoLC)793012617(MdBmJHUP)muse17639(DE-B1597)449503(OCoLC)823718110(OCoLC)979748811(DE-B1597)9780812207064(Au-PeEL)EBL3441833(CaPaEBR)ebr10642168(CaONFJC)MIL421000(MiAaPQ)EBC3441833(Perlego)732233(iGPub)CSPLUS0004185(EXLCZ)99324000000006476120110617d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMy storm managing the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina /Edward J. Blakely ; foreword by Henry Cisneros1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (x, 182 pages) illustrations, mapsThe city in the twenty-first centuryDescription based upon print version of record.9780812243857 0812243854 Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-160) and index.pt. I. Seeing the problem -- pt. II. Where to from here? -- pt. III. Elements of the city -- pt. IV. Assessing the recovery.Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community.My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done-admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale.City in the twenty-first century book series.Hurricane Katrina, 2005Disaster reliefLouisianaNew OrleansEmergency managementLouisianaNew OrleansUrban policyLouisianaNew OrleansCity planningLouisianaNew OrleansNew Orleans (La.)Politics and government21st centuryHurricane Katrina, 2005.Disaster reliefEmergency managementUrban policyCity planning976.3/35064092BBlakely Edward J(Edward James),1938-1896116Cisneros Henry1807936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955201503321My storm4550437UNINA