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Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans
Katrina The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans Katrina, the worst urban disaster in American history, did not end when the hurricane's eye passed New Orleans on September 29, 2005. In 192 pages packed with images of destruction and revival, Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans hints at the scope of the devastation and at the resilience of a city that has resolved to survive it.The b... more »ook details how Katrina was much more than wind and flooding lives were torn apart as surely as houses and landscapes. Nor can it rightly be called a natural disaster. Engineering failures underlay the levee breaches and politics clouded and confounded the relief and recovery efforts. At every turn, the saga of a city's ordeal invited spectacular photography, provided here as the visual record of Katrina and her aftermath.« less