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We Shall Not Be Moved Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

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ISBN-10: 0807044636

ISBN-13: 9780807044636

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tom Wooten

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As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization: their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, but it faced a leadership vacuum. Members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job.  We Shall Not Be Movedtells the story of the community leaders who stepped into this void and led to the city's resurrection. Wooten follows community leaders in five New Orleans neighborhoods, vividly presenting their narratives as they organize their neighbors to ward off demolition threats, write recovery plans, open schools, and convince skeptical…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.26" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Peter Arnold is an author and editor, most of whose 50 or so books concern sports and games. He has written histories and encyclopedias of boxing, cricket, football and the Olympic Games, and wrote the official FIFA guide to the 1994 Football World Cup in the USA. He has also worked as editor and main contributor of part-works on boxing and football, and has ghost-written instruction books for a West Indian Test fast bowler and a Canadian world snooker champion.Peter devised some of the mental games for the television series The Crystal Maze. Several of his books are on table games, including some on individual card games, and he has written three books on gambling, one of which was…    

Foreword
Preface
A City and a Storm
"Very Much at Home"
A Vulnerable City
"Somebody Else's Couch"
The Year After
"The Whole World Was Gray"
Village de l'Est: "Back on the Map"
Hollygrove: "To Re-create a Neighborhood"
Lakeview: "Don't Get in Our Way"
Broadmoor: "This is No Ordinary Plan"
The Lower Ninth Ward: "Always a Question, and Then a Dead Silence"
Neighborhoods and Citywide Planning: "Promises are Made, and They Are Not Kept"
A Ringing Bell
Broadmoor: "Bring Life Back"
Village de 'Est: "Everybody's Connected"
Hollygrove: "Slowly but Surely"
Lakeview: "A Whole Different Ballgame"
The Lower Ninth Ward: "I Feel So Good When I'm Home"
Laurels
Epilogue
Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes