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Crisis Cities - Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Hardcover)
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Crisis Cities - Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Hardcover)
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Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a
historically grounded comparative study to examine the form,
trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following
the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of
research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New
York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities,
representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment
that is increasingly dominant for crisis-stricken cities around the
world. This approach, which Gotham and Greenberg term crisis driven
urbanization, emphasizes the privatization of disaster aid and
resources, the devolution of disaster recovery responsibilities to
the local state, and the use of generous tax incentives to bolster
revitalization. Crisis driven urbanization also involves global
branding campaigns and public media events to repair a city's image
for business and tourism, as well as internally-focused political
campaigns and events that associate post-crisis political leaders
and public-private partnerships with this revitalized urban image.
By focusing on past and present conditions in New York and New
Orleans, Gotham and Greenberg show how crises expose long-neglected
injustices, underlying power structures, and social inequalities.
In doing so, they reveal the impact of specific policy reforms,
public-private actions, and socio-legal regulatory strategies on
the creation and reproduction of risk and vulnerability to
disasters. Crisis Cities questions the widespread narrative of
resilience and reveals the uneven and contradictory effects of
redevelopment activities in the two cities.
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