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My Storm - Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Hardcover, New)
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My Storm - Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina (Hardcover, New)
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some
of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San
Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September
11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the
challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development
Administration following Hurricane Katrina. In Katrina's wake, New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous
proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic
infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of
Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of
New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained
that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the
statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble
well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining
population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a
failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems
worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical
damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a
racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a
firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina
recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to
transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that
could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery
effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges
at hand and the work done-admitting that he sometimes stumbled,
especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of
the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and
would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary
tale.
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