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The resilient city: how modern cities recover from disaster

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Oxford University Press

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2005

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English

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I: Narratives of resilience

Making progress: disaster narratives and the art of optimist in modern America / Kevin Rozario

"The predicament of aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11 / Edward T. Linenthal

The city's end: past and present narratives of New York's destruction / Max Page

II: The symbolic dimensions of trauma and recovery

Patriotism and the reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British invasion of 1814 / Anthony S. Pitch

Double restoration: rebuilding Berlin after 1945 / Brian Ladd

Warsaw: reconstruction as propaganda / Jasper Goldman

A delayed healing: understanding the fragmented resilience of Gernika / Julie B. Kirschbaum and Desirée Sideroff

Resurrecting Jerusalem / Julian Beinart

III: The politics of reconstruction

Resilient Tokyo: disaster and transformation in the Japanese City / Carola Hein

"Resist the earthquake and rescue ourselves": the reconstruction of Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake / Beatrice Chen

Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 earthquake and the transformation of the capital / Diane E. Davis

A vital void: reconstructions of downtown Beirut / Hashim Sarkis

After the unrest: ten years of rebuilding Los Angeles following the trauma of 1992 / William Fulton

Cyborg agonistes: disaster and reconstruction in the digital electronic era / William J. Mitchell and Anthony M. Townsend

Axioms of resilience / Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.

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Subjects

Catastrophes
Catastrophes -- Histoire
Disasters
Disasters -- History
Electronic books
Electronic books -- History
Essays
Geschiedenis
Histoire
History
katastrophē
Rampen
Rénovation urbaine
Rénovation urbaine -- Histoire
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays
Stadsvernieuwing
Stadt
Stadtsanierung
Urban renewal
Urban renewal -- History
Wiederaufbau
Zerstörung

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Contributors

Campanella, Thomas J
Campanella, Thomas J. editor
ProQuest (Firm)
Vale, Lawrence J.,1959- editor

ISBN

9780195175844
9781602565210
9780195175837
9780198039136
160256521
9781280428272
9786610428274
9781423722519
9780199884162
9780197562246

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