LEADER 04691nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910788585603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89750-4 010 $a0-8122-0706-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207064 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064761 035 $a(EBL)3441833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704153 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11397189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704153 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10691621 035 $a(PQKB)11585789 035 $a(OCoLC)793012617 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17639 035 $a(DE-B1597)449503 035 $a(OCoLC)823718110 035 $a(OCoLC)979748811 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207064 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441833 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642168 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441833 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064761 100 $a20110617d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMy storm$b[electronic resource] $emanaging the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina /$fEdward J. Blakely ; foreword by Henry Cisneros 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (x, 182 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aThe city in the twenty-first century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4385-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-160) and index. 327 $apt. I. Seeing the problem -- pt. II. Where to from here? -- pt. III. Elements of the city -- pt. IV. Assessing the recovery. 330 $aEdward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community.My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done-admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale. 410 0$aCity in the twenty-first century book series. 606 $aHurricane Katrina, 2005 606 $aDisaster relief$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aEmergency management$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aUrban policy$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aCity planning$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xPolitics and government$y21st century 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aGeneral. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aSocial Science. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 0$aHurricane Katrina, 2005. 615 0$aDisaster relief 615 0$aEmergency management 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aCity planning 676 $a976.3/35064092 676 $aB 700 $aBlakely$b Edward J$g(Edward James),$f1938-$01467650 701 $aCisneros$b Henry$01467651 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788585603321 996 $aMy storm$93678386 997 $aUNINA