Germany, have come closest, perhaps, in this regard. But with Hurricane Katrina we have a strong competitor, at least in a time series sense, if not from a cross section approach, as in these two other cases. That is, there are not one but two New Orleanses: the one before this natural and/or man made disaster, and the one afterward. They are both located in the same geographical terrain, but that pretty much exhausts the resemblance between them. The former was a thriving, functioning city. Yes, it had its problems, but they were not so different than those of a half dozen other cities in the U.S. Afterward, the Big Uneasy resembled not so much a metropolis in this country, but rather one in any of the very poorest sections of Africa or Asia. In this e-book there is analyses from a whole host of disciplines including sociology, public health,
social work, city planning, geography, urbanism, history, political science, architecture,
engineering (never forget those collapsing levies), ethics, philosophy, accounting, management, marketing, finance, international relations, criminology,
law and ethnic studies.
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