Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster

This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: making cities less vulnerable to disaster, reestablishing economic viability, responding to the permanent needs of the displaced, and recreating a sense of place.

Eugenie L. Birch is Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Susan Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Together, they direct the Penn Institute for Urban Research.

Preface: ``The Wound''

vii

Amy Gutmann

Introduction: Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster

1

(12)

Eugenie L. Birch

Susan M. Wachter

I. Making Places Less Vulnerable

Physical Constraints on Reconstructing New Orleans

13

(21)

Robert Giegengack

Kenneth R. Foster

Negotiating a Fluid Terrain

34

(13)

Anuradha Mathur

Dilip da Cunha

The Problems of Containment and the Promise of Planning

47

(19)

Raymond J. Burby

Arthur C. Nelson

Thomas W. Sanchez

Mapping for Sustainable Resilience

66

(12)

Frederick Steiner

Barbara Faga

James Sipes

Robert Yaro

Natural Hazards Science---A Matter of Public Safety

78

(11)

P. Patrick Leahy

II. Returning Urban Places to Economic Viability

Measuring Katrina's Impact on the Gulf Megapolitan Area

89

(14)

Robert E. Lang

Restarting the Economy

103

(14)

Mark Zandi

Steven Cochrane

Fillip Ksiazkiewicz

Ryan Sweet

Rebuilding Transportation

117

(15)

Rachel Weinberger

Learning from Past Disasters

132

(17)

Eugenie L. Birch

Restoring Urban Viability

149

(19)

Lawrence J. Vale

Housing Displaced Families

168

(17)

Jeffrey Lubell

Assessing the University's Role

185

(8)

Lester A. Lefton

Yvette M. Jones

III. Responding to the Needs of the Displaced: Issues of Class, Race, and Recovery

Inadequate Responses, Limited Expectations

193

(8)

Elijah Anderson

Educational Equity in Post-Disaster New Orleans

201

(16)

Vivian L. Gadsden

The Lost and Forgotten

217

(13)

Richard J. Gelles

Temporary Housing Blues

230

(14)

Gary Hack

Lessons from Sri Lanka

244

(15)

Thomas L. Daniels

Harris Steinberg

IV. Recreating a Sense of Place

Promoting Cultural Preservation

259

(16)

Randall Mason

Understanding New Orleans's Architectural Ecology

275

(13)

Dell Upton

Reconstructing New Orleans: A Progress Report

288

(17)

Jonathan Barnett

John Beckman

Rebuilding the ``Land of Dreams'' with Music

305

(24)

Nick Spitzer

Walking to Wal-Mart: Planning for Mississippi and Beyond

329

(13)

Sandy Sorlien

Leland R. Speed

Afterword

342

(3)

Ronald J. Daniels

Bibliography

345

(20)

Acknowledgments

365

(2)

List of Contributors

367

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