Lessons of Disaster: Sandy, New York City, Housing Projects, and Lost Wages

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   After Katrina and the continual start-and-stop-and-slow rebuilding process in New Orleans with side trips and explorations to Kobe and more recently cities in Eastern Japan after those earthquakes and the tsunami attacks, and other cities near and far, I have come to believe that the way governments, established institutions, and community and popular organizations …

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Japanese Workers’ Co-operative Union & Recovery Challenges of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake

ACORN International Rebuild New Orleans

Sendai   Sendai is the largest city in eastern Japan about 2-hours by Shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo central station.  A lot of the recovery efforts from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, as it is called here, and the tsunami are centered here along with the recovery office of the Japanese Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU).  Sendai …

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