The tale of a two-tiered city: Community civic structure and spatial inequality in post-Katrina New Orleans
- 주제(기타) Urban Studies
- 설명문(일반) [Go, Min Hee] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Polit Sci & Int Relat, Seoul, South Korea
- 등재 SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 WILEY
- 발행년도 2018
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000156949
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2018.1490151
초록/요약
In this article, I investigate the long-term consequences of community civic structure on postdisaster recovery. Tracing various signs of recovery after Hurricane Katrina, I find that community civic structure is associated with deepening, rather than reducing, spatial inequality in New Orleans and report 3 findings. First, community civic structure contributes far more to repopulating communities on higher ground than low-lying neighborhoods. Second, despite the similar level of civic resources before Katrina, community civic structure has cast different impacts on reducing vulnerabilities across neighborhoods after Katrina. Though a dense civic structure helped attract more resilient populations in high-lying neighborhoods, the opposite happened in low-lying neighborhoods. Finally, community civic structure is associated with the city's racialized geography, concentrating more Whites in the city's safer areas and Black residents in the low-lying communities. These findings raise caution against pursuing community-based resilience as a postdisaster strategy.
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