A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Publisher:  Penguin
Year Published:  2010  
Pages:  368pp   ISBN:  978-0-14-311807-7
Library of Congress Number:  HV553.S59 2009   Dewey:  303.48'5--dc22

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Table of Contents:

Prelude: Falling Together

I. A Millennial Good Fellowship: The San Francisco Earthquake
The Mizpah Cafe
Pauline Jacobson's Joy
General Funston's Fear
William James's Moral Equivalents
Dorothy Day's Other Loves

II. Halifax to Hollywood: The Great Debate
A Tale of Two Princes: The Halifax Explosion and After
From the Blitz and the Bomb to Vietnam
Hobbes in Hollywood, or the Few Versus the Many

III. Carnival and Revolution: Mexico City's Earthquake
Power from Below
Losing the Mandate of Heaven
Standing on Top of Golden Hours

IV. The City Transfigured: New York in Grief and Glory
Mutual Aid in the Marketplace
The Need to Help
Nine Hundred and Eleven Questions

V. New Orleans: Common Grounds and Killers
What Difference Would It Make?
Murderers
Love and Lifeboats
Beloved Community

Epilogue: The Doorway in The Ruins
Gratitude
Notes
Index

Subject Headings

• Altruism
• Anarchism
• Bombing
• Buddhism
• Civil Society
• Collective Joy
• Communities/Cities
• Community Building
• Disaster Recovery
• Disasters
• Earthquakes
• Elite Panic
• Elites
• Emotions
• Empowerment
• Fear
• Fear/Coping with
• Fire
• Floods/Flooding
• Human Nature
• Human Potential
• Human Values
• Hurricanes
• Joy
• Looting
• Mutual Aid
• Pain of Others
• Privatization
• Race Relations/Racism
• Racism
• Religion
• Religion & Society
• Revolution
• Revolutionary Moments
• September 11 (9/11)
• Solidarity
• Theft
• Utopias