LEADER 04149nam 2200673 450 001 9910824329303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0093-6 010 $a1-5017-0094-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501700941 035 $a(CKB)3710000000497177 035 $a(EBL)4189260 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001571113 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16219872 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001571113 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13996388 035 $a(PQKB)11285088 035 $a(OCoLC)965167659 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56397 035 $a(DE-B1597)480097 035 $a(OCoLC)927140765 035 $a(OCoLC)979581317 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501700941 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4189260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11129097 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL875537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189260 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000497177 100 $a20151228h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReforming New Orleans $ethe contentious politics of change in the Big Easy /$fPeter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas ; cover design and photograph by Scott Levine 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-5385-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Rebuilding Governance, Politics, and Policy in New Orleans -- $t1. Pre-Katrina New Orleans -- $t2. Reform and Economic Development -- $t3. Democracy versus Reform in Pre-Katrina Education -- $t4. The Most Reform-Friendly City in the Country -- $t5. From Mismanagement to Reform in Housing -- $t6. Public Safety or an Unsafe Public? -- $tConclusion: The Effects of Sudden Shocks on Governance, Politics, and Policy -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of disaster. Focusing on reforms in four key sectors of urban governance-economic development, education, housing, and law enforcement-both before and after Katrina, they find lessons for cities hit by sudden shocks, such as natural disasters or large-scale financial crises.One of their key insights is that post-disaster recovery tends to limit local control. State and federal officials, national foundations, and local actors excluded by pre-Katrina politics used their resources and authority to displace entrenched local interests and implement a public agenda focused on institutional and governmental change. Burns and Thomas also make clear reform in New Orleans was already underway before Katrina hit, but that it had focused largely on upper- and middle-class residents, a trend that accelerated after the storm. The market-centered nature of the reforms have ensured that they largely benefited city and regional elites while not significantly aiding the city's working-class and impoverished populations. Thus reform has come at a cost and that cost, in the long term, could undermine the political gains of the post-Katrina era. 606 $aPolitical culture$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans 606 $aHurricane Katrina, 2005$xPolitical aspects 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xPolitics and government 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aHurricane Katrina, 2005$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a320.9763/35 700 $aBurns$b Peter F.$01029767 702 $aThomas$b Matthew O. 702 $aLevine$b Scott 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824329303321 996 $aReforming New Orleans$93999616 997 $aUNINA