Pathways through Crisis - Urban Risk and Public Culture (Hardcover)

When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the affected communities themselves. In Pathways through Crisis, he draws on his two decades of work in ethnography and with crisis centers in the Los Angeles area to study the kinds of informal organizations that arise at the grass-roots level in order to deal with severe crises. This ground-breaking examination of responses to urban disaster suggests how both informal and formal organizations can be developed to serve people under extreme duress.

General

Imprint:	AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	Carl A. Maida
Dimensions:	239 x 161 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-7591-1132-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	0-7591-1132-4
Barcode:	9780759111325

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