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What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
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Description for What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
Hardcover. Includes contributions by planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum who have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Editor(s): Steinberg, Phil; Shields, Dr. Rob. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15 photos, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; JFFC; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
This book offers cutting-edge thinking on contemporary urban spaces.The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography and planning: What is a city? Is it a place of memory embedded in architecture, a location in regional and global networks, or an arena wherein communities form and reproduce themselves?Planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The twelve contributors to ""What Is a City?"" are a ... Read more
This book offers cutting-edge thinking on contemporary urban spaces.The devastation brought upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee system failure has forced urban theorists to revisit the fundamental question of urban geography and planning: What is a city? Is it a place of memory embedded in architecture, a location in regional and global networks, or an arena wherein communities form and reproduce themselves?Planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The twelve contributors to ""What Is a City?"" are a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329642
SKU
V9780820329642
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Reviews for What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina
What Is a City? offers sensitive and nuanced explorations of the urban approached through themes of nature, mobility, community, and memory. This is a technically adept, keenly observed, and emotionally gripping work, standing at the cutting edge of urban analysis, interpretive method, and geographic conceptualization. - Robert W. Lake, author of Locational Conflict ""What Is a City? is a thematically ... Read more