The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster

The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster /

Cities have been destroyed throughout history. And yet in every instance they have risen, phoenix-like from the ashes. This anthology, edited by Lawrence J Vale and Thomas J Campanella, explores the resilience of cities, and the politics and processes that govern urban recovery in the wake of disast...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Vale, Lawrence J., 1959- (Editor), Campanella, Thomas J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > History.
Disasters > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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 DesirĂ©e 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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