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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 diverse group from the disciplines of anthropology,
architecture, geography, philosophy, planning, public policy
studies, and sociology, as well as community organizing. They
believe that these conversations about the fate of New Orleans are
animated by assumptions and beliefs about the function of cities in
general.They unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert
and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just
toward New Orleans, but toward cities. As volume coeditor Phil
Steinberg points out in his introduction, ""Even before the
floodwaters had subsided...scholars and planners were beginning to
reflect on Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath, and they
were beginning to ask bigger questions with implications for cities
as a whole.""The experience of catastrophe forces us to reconsider
not only the material but the abstract and virtual qualities of
cities. It requires us to revisit how we think about, plan for, and
live in them.
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 diverse group from the disciplines of anthropology,
architecture, geography, philosophy, planning, public policy
studies, and sociology, as well as community organizing. They
believe that these conversations about the fate of New Orleans are
animated by assumptions and beliefs about the function of cities in
general.They unpack post-Katrina discourse, examining what expert
and public responses tell us about current attitudes not just
toward New Orleans, but toward cities. As volume coeditor Phil
Steinberg points out in his introduction, ""Even before the
floodwaters had subsided...scholars and planners were beginning to
reflect on Hurricane Katrina and its disastrous aftermath, and they
were beginning to ask bigger questions with implications for cities
as a whole.""The experience of catastrophe forces us to reconsider
not only the material but the abstract and virtual qualities of
cities. It requires us to revisit how we think about, plan for, and
live in them.
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