Out of ground zero
Subtitle: case studies in urban reinvention
By: edited by Joan Ockman.
Contributors: Ockman, Joan.; Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture.
Publisher: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University; Prestel
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]; Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Urban renewal -- Case studies; City planning -- Case studies; Architecture, Modern; Disasters -- Social aspects -- Case studies; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
Genres: Case studies
Notes: "The essays in this volume originated as a series of lectures presented under the auspices of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University in the spring of 2002"--P. 14.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joan Ockman; title: Lisbon : the earthquake of 1755 and urban recovery under the Marquês de Pombal / Kenneth Maxwell; title: Chicago : out of the blue : the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 / Ross Miller; title: Hiroshima : the atomic bomb and Kenzo Tange's Hiroshima Peace Center / Carola Hein; title: Rotterdam : the promise of a new, modern society in a new, modern city, 1940 to the present / Han Meyer; title: Plymouth : reconstruction after World War II / Alan Powers; title: Berlin : film and the representation of urban reconstruction since the fall of the Wall / Hubertus Siegert and Ralph Stern; title: Balkan cities : urbicide and chances for the reconstruction of Balkan cities / Milan Prodanovic; title: Jerusalem : the symbolism of the Dome of the Rock from the seventh century to the present / Kanan Makiya; title: New York : creatively destroying New York : fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city / Max Page; title: Epilogue : an architecture of liberty? : the city as democracy's forge / Benjamin R. Barber.