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The Viet Village Urban Farm and the Politics of Neighborhood Viability in Post‐ K atrina N ew O rleans
Author(s) -
TRUITT ALLISON
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/ciso.12003
Subject(s) - vision , politics , sustainability , urban sustainability , population , geography , sociology , political science , ecology , biology , law , demography , anthropology
Viability emerged as a contentious political term in post‐ K atrina N ew O rleans. While initial expert‐led proposals defined neighborhood viability in terms of topography, community‐based groups emphasized the cultural and historical aspects that defined neighborhoods as viable. This analysis focuses on the politics of neighborhood viability with regarding to a specific neighborhood, Village de l' E st, well known for its sizeable V ietnamese population. Community leaders effectively employed cultural discourses to increase the visibility of the neighborhood and make claims on recovery dollars. One of these proposals was for an urban farm. The case‐study presented here focuses on how the proposal made evident how claims of viability often generated generated conflicting visions of neighborhoods in pre‐ and post‐ K atrina N ew O rleans. [Sustainability, Urban farm, V ietnamese A mericans, N ew O rleans]