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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. Katrina: Collective Resistance

Author : Alexandra Jayeun Lee

Published in: Resilience by Design

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

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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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.
 
2
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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Metadata
Title
Katrina: Collective Resistance
Author
Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Resilience by Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-30639-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-30641-4

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30641-4_5