Urban Resilience and the Recovery of New Orleans

✍ Scribed by Campanella, Thomas J.

• Book ID: 120297226
• Publisher: American Planning Association
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 101 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0194-4363
• DOI: 10.1080/01944360608976734

✦ Synopsis

hat makes a city resilient? What enables a devastated metropolis to rebuild its physical fabric and recover its social fabric and cultural identity? What factors will determine whether New Orleans can rebound from Hurricane Katrina as a richly diverse and inclusive metropolis? Cities are extraordinarily durable. Yet the media and popular press were loaded with dire prognostications about the death of New Orleans in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina. The city, "left to the dead," as the Atlanta Constitution headline said (Dart, , p. ), was completely destroyed according to New Orleans Deputy Police Chief Warren Riley. Perhaps it would not be wise to rebuild, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert counseled, given the Crescent City's perilous locale. A Washington Post essay by Joel Garreau () on the future of New Orleans was titled "A Sad Truth: Cities Aren't Forever."