Author Description

Catastrophe and the "Katrina Effect" / William M. Taylor and Michael P. Levine -- Reckoning: Disaster and Justice. The Effect of Katrina on Ideas of Justice / Naomi Zack; New Orleans, 2005, and Port-au-Prince, 2010: Some Reflections on Trans-American Disaster in the Twenty-first Century / Anna Hartnell -- Recomposing Katrina. "It's the end of the city (as we know it)": Katrina as Metaphor and Template for the Urban Apocalypse / John Hannigan; A Katrina Lexicon / Richard Campanella -- Bearing Witness: Journalists in the Eye of the Storm / James O'Byrne -- Dissembling: Sociology, Philosophy, and Ecology. Extending the "Urban Disaster" Paradigm: From New Orleans to Detroit (and Beyond?) / James Rhodes; Witnessing Katrina: Morbid Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Disaster / Michael P. Levine -- Accounting for Disaster. Post-Katrina and Post-Financial Crises: Competing Logics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Security / Grahame F. Thompson; Shifts in Compensating Victims of Disasters after Katrina / Michael G. Faure -- Tabula Rasa: Urbanism and Architecture. Katrina Effect: The Ruination of New Orleans and the Planners of Injustice / M. Christine Boyer; Architecture after Katrina: Lessons from the Past or Designs for Someone Else's Future? / William M. Taylor; Historic Urban Catastrophes: Learning for the Future from Wartime Destruction / Jeffry M. Diefendorf -- Memory: forgetfulness and commemoration. Historic City with a Poor Memory / Craig E. Colten; Natural and Man-Made: Memorializing Complex Causes / David Simpson.