Rebuilding Community after Katrina chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell Universitys City and Regional Planning department and ACORN Housing, an affiliate of what was the nations largest low-income community organization. These unlikely allies came together to begin to rebuild devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The editors and contributors to this volume allow participants voices to show how this partnership integrated careful, technical analysis with aggressive community outreach and organizing. With essays by activists, organizers, community members, and academics on the ground, Rebuilding Community after Katrina presents insights on the challenges involved in changing the way politicians and analysts imagined the future of New Orleans Ninth Ward.
What emerges from this complex drama are lessons about community planning, organizational relationships, and team building across multi-cultural lines. The accounts presented inRebuilding Community after Katrina raise important and sensitive questions about the appropriate roles of outsiders in community-based planning processes.
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How a community-university partnership brought together analysis and political muscle to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward
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| Introduction: Working against the Odds: Mobilizing Three University Teams to Collaborate with an Activist Community Organization |
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Interlude 1 Who Were They Then? |
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Part I Setting Out the Players, Plot, Promises, and Problems |
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1 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 |
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2 Surveying the Ninth Ward: Place and People |
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3 From Crowbars to Consultants: A Planning Education in the Eye of the Storm |
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4 The Power of the Plan: A Profile of Richard Hayes, Director of Special Projects, ACORN Housing |
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Part II The People's Plan and Community Members |
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5 Executive Summary of The People's Plan for Overcoming the Hurricane Katrina Blues: A Comprehensive Strategy for Building a More Vibrant, Sustainable, and Equitable Ninth Ward |
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6 Photodocumentary of Returning Ninth Ward Residents |
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Part III Work on the Ground in New Orleans |
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7 Politics, Inspiration, and Vocation: An Education in New Orleans |
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8 An International Student's Perceptions of Hurricane Katrina |
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9 Reflections on Fieldwork in the Ninth Ward: Implications for Planning Education |
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10 Fuzzies versus GATs: The Importance of Unity and Communication in Cornell's New Orleans Neighborhood Planning Workshop |
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11 Reality Intrudes on Expectations: A Planning Student's First Encounter with Participatory Neighborhood Planning |
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12 Planning by Doing: A Semester of Service Learning |
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Part IV Looking Backward and Looking Forward |
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13 Conclusions and Reflections, Difficulties and Epiphanies |
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Interlude 2 Where Are They Now? |
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Appendix: On Data Collection |
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Ken Reardon is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Memphis. He received the American Institute of Certified Planners President's Award, the Dale Prize for Excellence in City Planning, and the Ernest Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Community Engagement for his work on university-community participatory action research. John Forester is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He recently published Planning in the Face of Conflict and Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes, and is the co-author (with Norman Krumholz) of Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector.
