The resilient city : how modern cities recover from disaster / [edited by] Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-

Campanella, Thomas J.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--History.

Urban renewal.

Disasters--History.

Disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For as long as they have existed, cities have been destroyed - sacked, shaken, burnt, bombed, flooded, starved, irradiated and pillaged. In almost every case, they have risen again. Rarely in modern times has a city not been rebuilt following destruction, be it natural or man-made. 'The Resilient City' explores urban disasters from around the globe and the ongoing restoration of urban life.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction: The Cities Rise Again; PART I: Narratives of Resilience; 1 Making Progress: Disaster Narratives and the Art of Optimism in Modern America; 2 "The Predicament of Aftermath": Oklahoma City and September 11; 3 The City's End: Past and Present Narratives of New York's Destruction; PART II: The Symbolic Dimensions of Trauma and Recovery; 4 Patriotism and the Reconstruction of Washington, D.C., after the British Invasion of 1814; 5 Double Restoration: Rebuilding Berlin after 1945; 6 Warsaw: Reconstruction as Propaganda

7 A Delayed Healing: Understanding the Fragmented Resilience of Gernika 8 Resurrecting Jerusalem; PART III: The Politics of Reconstruction; 9 Resilient Tokyo: Disaster and Transformation in the Japanese City; 10 "Resist the Earthquake and Rescue Ourselves": The Reconstruction of Tangshan after the 1976 Earthquake; 11 Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital; 12 A Vital Void: Reconstructions of Downtown Beirut; 13 After the Unrest: Ten Years of Rebuilding Los Angeles following the Trauma of 1992

14 Cyborg Agonistes: Disaster and Reconstruction in the Digital Electronic Era Conclusion: Axioms of Resilience; Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading on Urban Disasters and Recovery; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988416-1

0-19-756224-8

1-280-42827-9

0-19-803913-1

1-60256-521-X

OCLC:

171572575