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One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injustice

  • Written by Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injusticeNew Orleans residents wait to be rescued from a rooftop two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.AP Photo/David J. Phillipp

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees.

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