Urbanists, health and labor economists, education and housing experts, and other Urban Institute researchers chart paths out of the immediate emergency situation with proposals for rebuilding the social infrastructure of New Orleans. This collection is not a comprehensive blueprint for a comeback: the authors stuck to what they know and do best and worked hard to make sure that the recommendations offered for discussion complement each other and strike a workable balance between road-tested ideas and much-needed innovation. The authors feared that the social infrastructure issues -- how to build equity as well as opportunity into education, housing, employment, health, and the safety net in the new New Orleans -- would get short shrift in the face of overwhelming demands of rebuilding the physical cityscape.