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Katrina: Collective Resistance

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Reconstruction of urban cities necessarily involves politics. This chapter evaluates how various disaster recovery actors across different sectors negotiate disaster politics.

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Notes

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    Etymology of “levee”, meaning “raised” in French (levée, the past participle of verb se lever; to rise), was coined by the first European settlers of New Orleans in reference to the natural ridges above floodplains in the region.

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    Bell is also a co-founder of Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED), a national network of U.S. designers and design advocates, which offers an alternative certification for architectural projects on merits of social equity.

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    In 2012, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded a research grant to four architectural scholars and practitioners to undertake further research on the phenomenon.

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Lee, A.J. (2016). Katrina: Collective Resistance. In: Resilience by Design. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30641-4_5

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