Reforming New Orleans
The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy
Hurricane 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Thomas, Matthew O.
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-0093-4
- EAN: 9781501700934
- Produktnummer: 23652915
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'659 KB
- Abbildungen: 17 tables, 2 charts
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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