Four journal articles relevant to Urban Political Economy/Hurricane Katrina

ACORN March and Protest, near Hart Senate Office Building on Independence Ave. NE, Washington, DC, February 9, 2006. Note to Reed Kroloff, Dean of Architecture at Tulane, and critic of New Urbanism: the people marching aren't carrying photos of modernist buildings...

In March, the journal Urban Affairs Review published four articles about disaster political economy and the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, and what it communicates about government and urban issues. They have made the full issue open-access, likely due to the importance of the topics covered. I'm still working my way through the pieces, having just come across them...

-- Steven D. Stehr
The Political Economy of Urban Disaster Assistance
Urban Affairs Review 2006 41: 492-500. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]

-- Louise K. Comfort
Cities at Risk: Hurricane Katrina and the Drowning of New Orleans
Urban Affairs Review 2006 41: 501-516. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]

-- Peter Burns and Matthew O. Thomas
The Failure of the Nonregime: How Katrina Exposed New Orleans as a Regimeless City
Urban Affairs Review 2006 41: 517-527. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]

--Peter Dreier
Katrina and Power in America
Urban Affairs Review 2006 41: 528-549. [Abstract] [PDF] [References]

Index Keywords: New-Orleans