Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Semi-annual Report
Author: Semi-annual Report of the Sewerage and Water Board of the City of New Orleans, La
Author: Sewerage and Water Board of New OrleansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sewerage
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Katrina
Author: Andy HorowitzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674246764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Boston Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Biennial Report
Author: Louisiana State MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers
Author: Boston Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description