My storm
Subtitle: the saga of the New Orleans recovery czar
By: Edward J. Blakely
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The city in the twenty-first century; City in the twenty-first century book series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780812243857
Subjects: Emergency management; Politics and government; Urban policy; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; City planning; Disaster relief
Description: "Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.