BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250826T220442EDT-03989nMv9L@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250827T020442Z DESCRIPTION:City of Storms: Competing Disaster Imaginaries in Post-Hurrican e New York\n\nPresenter: David Wachsmuth\n\nAssistant Professor\, ϲ S chool of Urban Planning\n\nSeveral years after Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York region\, major questions remain about the storm as an urban g overnance problem. Why was Occupy Sandy widely understood to be more effec tive at disaster aid than the government? How has Sandy changed the politi cs of urban sustainability in New York? To answer these questions I develo p the concept of disaster imaginaries\, connecting processes of meaning ma king with strategies of planning and collective action. First\, I argue th at two distinct disaster imaginaries led to very different definitions of crisis and strategies of emergency response: a “bounded” elite imaginary a nd an “open” everyday imaginary. Second\, I argue that the existence of th ese disaster imaginaries helps explain why Occupy Sandy was widely seen as more successful at disaster aid than the government\, and helps plug gaps in the more common organization-focused explanatory accounts. Third\, I s how that even after the immediate crisis passed\, the two disaster imagina ries have been reproduced as opposing visions of how to build a more susta inable post-Sandy New York. I conclude by discussing the implications of t he research for planning and urban studies. The findings are based on inte rviews\, fieldwork and policy analysis conducted via Superstorm Research L ab\, a collaborative research group I co-founded.\n\n \n\nThe Urban Studie s @ϲ Seminar Series invites speakers to present on a variety of ongoi ng research\, projects\, and issues related to urban studies. The seminars are hosted and organized by the ϲ School of Urban Planning\, with pa rticipation from the ϲ School of Environment\, and Department of Geog raphy. The seminars typically run from noon to 1pm on Fridays throughout t he semester and are open to students\, faculty\, and other members of the urban studies group.\n DTSTART:20151002T160000Z DTEND:20151002T170000Z LOCATION:rm. 420\, CA\, Macdonald-Harrington Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\ , 815 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Urban Studies @ϲ Seminar Series URL:/channels/event/urban-studies-mcgill-seminar-serie s-254897 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR