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Rebuilding community after Katrina : transformative education in the New Orleans planning initiative /

"Rebuilding Community after Katrina chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University's City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nation's largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came tog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Reardon, Ken, 1953- (Editor ), Forester, John, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Setting out the players, plot, promises, and problems. Planning, hope, and struggle in the wake of Katrina : an interview with Ken Reardon on the university and ACORN and ACORN housing partnerships in the ninth ward
  • Surveying the ninth ward : place and people / Crystal Lackey Launder
  • From crowbars to consultants : a planning education in the eye of the storm / Andrew Rumbach
  • The power of the plan : a profile of Richard Hayes, director of special projects, ACORN housing
  • Part 2. The people's plan and community members. Executive summray of The people's plan for overcoming in Hurricane Katrina blues : a comprehensive strategy for building a more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable Ninth Ward
  • Photodocumentary of returning Ninth Ward residents / Brian Rosa
  • Part 3. Work on the ground in New Orleans. Politics, inspiration, and vocation : an education in New Orleans / Efrem Bycer
  • An international student's perceptions of Hurricane Katrina / Praj Kasbekar
  • Reflections on fieldwork in the Ninth Ward : implications for planning education / Marcel Ionescu-Heroiu
  • Fuzzies versus GATs : the importance of unity and communication in Cornell's New Orleans Neighborhood Planning Workshop / Sarah McKinley
  • Reality intrudes on expectations : a planning student's first encounter with participatory neighborhood planning / Joanna Winter
  • Planning by doing : a semester of service learning / David Lessinger
  • Part 4. Looking backward and looking forward. Conclusions and reflections, difficulties and epiphanies / John Forester.