01281pab a2200157 454500008004000000100001800040245003300058260000900091300001400100362000800114520092300122650001901045650001701064650001401081773002801095180718b2006   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDreire, Peter  aKatrina and power in America  c2006  ap.528-49.  aMar  aThe Katrina diaster exposed the major fault lines of American society and politics; class and race. It offers lessons for urban scholars and practitioners. Katrina was a human made disaster more than a natural disaster. the conditions that led to the disaster, and the response by government officials, were the result of policy choices. Government incompetence was an outgrowth of a more serious indifference to the plight of cities and the poor. As a result, the opportunity to reconstruct New Orleans as a part of a bold regional renewal plan was lost. Whatever positive things happen in Katrina's aftermath will be due, in large measure, to the long-term work of grassroots community and union-organizing groups who mobilized quickly to provide a voice for the have-nots and who found allies among professionals to help formulate alternative plans to those developed by business and political elites. - Reproduced.  aUrban planning  aUrban Policy  aDisasters  aUrban Affairs Quarterly