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Book Review: Post–Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles

Book Review: Post–Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles Book Reviews CRISIS CITIES:DISASTER AND REDEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS, by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-975221-8 ($99 Cloth, $25 Paper). Reviewed by Gregory Smithsimon Brooklyn College, City University of New York At first glance, the responses to the September 11, 2001, attack in New York and Hurri- cane Katrina’s destruction in New Orleans in 2005 could not have been more different. In the first, victims were hailed as heroes and federal aid surpassed all previous levels. In the second, survivors were labeled criminals and the federal government notoriously stood by as more than 1,800 lives were lost in the storm and ensuing flood. But as Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg point out in Crisis Cities, the responses to the two disasters bore historic similarities. In this comparative study, the authors ar- gue that such crises can be “rupture and frame,” disrupting existing social, economic, and environmental systems, and an opportunity for elites to expand policies they iden- tify as “crisis-driven urbanization.” Gotham and Greenberg demonstrate that both re- covery programs were products of neoliberalism, characterized by neoliberal priorities such as selective privatization and abandonment of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Post–Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles

City and Community , Volume 14 (2): 1 – Jun 1, 2015

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1535-6841
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Book Reviews CRISIS CITIES:DISASTER AND REDEVELOPMENT IN NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS, by Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-975221-8 ($99 Cloth, $25 Paper). Reviewed by Gregory Smithsimon Brooklyn College, City University of New York At first glance, the responses to the September 11, 2001, attack in New York and Hurri- cane Katrina’s destruction in New Orleans in 2005 could not have been more different. In the first, victims were hailed as heroes and federal aid surpassed all previous levels. In the second, survivors were labeled criminals and the federal government notoriously stood by as more than 1,800 lives were lost in the storm and ensuing flood. But as Kevin Fox Gotham and Miriam Greenberg point out in Crisis Cities, the responses to the two disasters bore historic similarities. In this comparative study, the authors ar- gue that such crises can be “rupture and frame,” disrupting existing social, economic, and environmental systems, and an opportunity for elites to expand policies they iden- tify as “crisis-driven urbanization.” Gotham and Greenberg demonstrate that both re- covery programs were products of neoliberalism, characterized by neoliberal priorities such as selective privatization and abandonment of

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