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Recovering Inequality - Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster (Paperback)
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Recovering Inequality - Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster (Paperback)
Series: The Katrina Bookshelf
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A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction,
and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New
Orleans in 2005. Eighty percent of the built environments of both
cities were destroyed in the catastrophes, and the poor, the
elderly, and the medically infirm were disproportionately among the
thousands who perished. These striking similarities in the impacts
of cataclysms separated by a century impelled Steve Kroll-Smith to
look for commonalities in how the cities recovered from disaster.
In Recovering Inequality, he builds a convincing case that disaster
recovery and the reestablishment of social and economic inequality
are inseparable. Kroll-Smith demonstrates that disaster and
recovery in New Orleans and San Francisco followed a similar
pattern. In the immediate aftermath of the flooding and the
firestorm, social boundaries were disordered and the communities
came together in expressions of unity and support. But these were
quickly replaced by other narratives and actions, including the
depiction of the poor as looters, uneven access to disaster
assistance, and successful efforts by the powerful to take valuable
urban real estate from vulnerable people. Kroll-Smith concludes
that inexorable market forces ensured that recovery efforts in both
cities would reestablish the patterns of inequality that existed
before the catastrophes. The major difference he finds between the
cities is that, from a market standpoint, New Orleans was
expendable, while San Francisco rose from the ashes because it was
a hub of commerce.
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