The resilient city
Subtitle: how modern cities recover from disaster
By: [edited by] Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.
Contributors: Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-; Campanella, Thomas J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Urban renewal -- History; Disasters -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I: Narratives of resilience; title: Making progress: disaster narratives and the art of optimist in modern America / Kevin Rozario; title: "The predicament of aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11 / Edward T. Linenthal; title: The city's end: past and present narratives of New York's destruction / Max Page; title: II: The symbolic dimensions of trauma and recovery; title: Patriotism and the reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British invasion of 1814 / Anthony S. Pitch; title: Double restoration: rebuilding Berlin after 1945 / Brian Ladd; title: Warsaw: reconstruction as propaganda / Jasper Goldman; title: A delayed healing: understanding the fragmented resilience of Gernika / Julie B. Kirschbaum and Desirée Sideroff; title: Resurrecting Jerusalem / Julian Beinart; title: III: The politics of reconstruction; title: Resilient Tokyo: disaster and transformation in the Japanese City / Carola Hein; title: "Resist the earthquake and rescue ourselves": the reconstruction of Tangshan after the 1976 earthquake / Beatrice Chen; title: Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 earthquake and the transformation of the capital / Diane E. Davis; title: A vital void: reconstructions of downtown Beirut / Hashim Sarkis; title: After the unrest: ten years of rebuilding Los Angeles following the trauma of 1992 / William Fulton; title: Cyborg agonistes: disaster and reconstruction in the digital electronic era / William J. Mitchell and Anthony M. Townsend; title: Axioms of resilience / Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.