Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New OrleansCrisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the redevelopment efforts following the 9 11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free market approach to post disaster redevelopment that is increasingly dominant for crisis stricken