Sandy Sorlien and Jonathan Barnett spoke in a

Sandy Sorlien and Jonathan Barnett spoke in a University of Pennsylvania symposium in February on “Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina.” This summer Penn Press will publish a volume of the symposium papers, edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan Wachter, co-directors of the Penn Institute for Urban Research. The more than 40 speakers disagreed sharply on whether and how to rebuild New Orleans.